Author's note- Alright, YES I have finally updated!!! It took a while to get out, but that seems to be a trend for this story.
Disclaimer- The idea for Raven's powers to come in a mob of mutants was all ChamblinofMusic's! It is a great idea of what I have been leaning into! Thanks so much!!!
Thanks to CaramelTrombonegirl(5), Book-Devourerx(2), Ojex XIII(7), and ChamberlinofMusic(9) for reviewing the last chapter!!! The reviews really keep me going on this story sometimes!!! As always, any ideas and just shout them out!
Oh and special thank you's to Book-Devourerx for Beta-ing this chapter and the story so now it will be much prettier!!!
Her heart was pounding in her chest and she couldn't hear her own screams. It was infuriating and desperate. She felt like she couldn't be heard. She was screaming her head off, but no one could hear her. She was useless. She felt the vine like thing wrap up her legs and as much as she kicked, as much as she flailed, she couldn't get loose. She couldn't get the thing that was tightening around her and moving up, off of her.
She felt it try to tie down her arms and she held them away from her body. She squirmed and her hands flung in every direction. It was all so confusing, lights flashing, noises that seemed like screams, yells, pleads, and rants. It was horrifying.
She felt herself stop and opened her eyes. Only then she realized that they had been closed. She heard a voice saying something. She couldn't hear the words though. She could hear them speaking, but their words weren't there. They were loud though, louder than the others.
She felt her body shake and someone yelling. She looked up at a figure and all the movement on the block stopped. It was like the eye of the storm, before it hits you just as hard as it did before. She held her breath, afraid that even breathing would send the ominous eye away and she wouldn't live to see another one.
Her only thought was of getting out. Childish thoughts brought around from her terror. Thoughts of wanting her Dad to come and get her out, to save her like he never had before. She wanted him to come and be the anti-mutant hater he pretended to be and barrel through the crowd. Barrel through to come save her, to get her away.
To let her live.
It was coming to her, that she might not live. The cold looks surrounding her told her a story that she wished she wasn't reading. The only thought in her mind as tears streaked her face was the same sentence that ran over and over again:
"Daddy come save me…..Daddy come save me……Daddy come save me….."
Suddenly the thing that was holding her seemed to be gone and with the sudden found freedom, she kicked her way up so she was standing and could run. She couldn't even take a step before it started again, before that twinge of hope that seemed to last mere seconds was wiped away once more. Snuffed out like a candle and leaving her in the dark again.
Raven felt herself getting thrown back and forth. She was trying to run, but her legs were numb and she kept bumping into people. She would hit them and bounce back. She pushed and she shoved, but the lights only got brighter as the flashing began to get quicker to her. The noise of the mob was unbearable and the sounds were increasing as one person yelled louder and she was encompassed with the noise.
All she wanted was to get out; all she wanted to do was to be somewhere else doing something else. She was too scared as she felt her heart rate quicken when someone grabbed a hold of her. This time she could make out the high pitch of a scream and she wished she could be brave. She wished she could make the noise go away, make the ringing go away, to make the panic leave her forever. She wished that she could get out of this. That she could be in control of where ever she went. She wished she could even walk.
Raven felt someone or something grab her other arm and tug her in a new direction. She felt something pushing her and something shoving her and she couldn't tell if it was her feet taking her places or just her being thrown around like a rag doll. She felt like someone was going to tear her into a million little pieces.
Raven could never know that in the confusion of people tugging at her that with every pull, every movement, every new direction she was forced to take, her appearance renewed too. She couldn't tell that as a man pulled her to the left that her hair grew out and the dark faded into a dark red, then brilliant yellow, then brown. Long to short and thick to thin.
She couldn't tell that her eyes flickered from the dull brown of Raven Darkholme's, to brilliant greens and passive blues. She couldn't know that the second to last was a pure light blue, almost white and then finally a powerful golden yellow.
She couldn't tell that in that moment--that terrified, confusing moment--that her life had just changed…forever. She could only know what was happening to her and the rushing feelings of terror and panic settling over her like a fog over a road.
She could hear her own heart thumping and she thought it surely must be louder than her screams. It felt like it was going to fly out of her chest. She looked suddenly and, not only were the lights brighter, but the people were clearer. She could see them, individually. The lines of their body's weren't blending in anymore. She let out a scream again as the pulling on her arm set her off.
She swung her leg around and felt it make contact with something. She didn't know she had that kind of strength and to tell the truth, she felt weird. She kicked again, widely and without focus. Her mind raced as her eyes moved from one image to another without processing what she was seeing. Not yet anyways.
Suddenly she fell down on her knees, the breath gone from her. She sucked in air, the rawness of her throat suddenly dawning upon her. She looked down at her muddy hands and this time screamed louder. She wasn't looking at her hands!
She was looking at a pair of blue hands. The hands of an attacker. She flung whoever's hands they were away, trying so hard to wish this away. She felt the person take her with them as she fell to the ground again as if they'd knocked her hands out from under her as well.
Then as if a lion had approached, the entire crowd froze around her. She fell back down to the ground, feeling it cut into her now exposed knee. She didn't even know when she had gotten up. Then out of nowhere the screaming and yelling and confused noises started back up, but they got farther away and farther away.
As if it were all running from her and fleeing to some unknown source. She looked at the world from its side. Everything was upside down and slanted. She saw the people running and then they vanished into the ground. She couldn't think and she could now hear the sound of sirens through her pounding ears, her wheezing breaths, and the sound of her heart beat. She looked at a street light trying to focus on anything but where she was.
She let her eyes slide close as the world went blank.
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