Hello again to all my friends. I don't own X-men, but regardless the original characters that I'll be using in here do belong to me.
Chapter 36
The first thought was where was Ivy. Ivy had a power that could counter Sparky's like she was trying to hit Ivy with water balloons... Naomi decide that wasn't the best comparison even as it crossed her mind. Ivy would give herself armor made out of wood, it didn't do her much good against Dragon -not that that kept her from trying to beat Dragon when he was on the hill- she could drive Sparky back with ease. Naomi moved silently through the center spiral. It didn't show the power of the one on the hill. In the end it was all up to chance who arrived at the hill to fight who.
Ivy and Naomi both came out from the maze at the same moment. Once standing at the base of the hill there was no going back into the maze. An intentional back step would send the player to one of the starts again. All three of the girls grinned, it was going to be interesting, and if they were lucky, fun.
Naomi ran at Sparky catching the girl's attention. She sent a wave of electricity across the ground at Naomi, she jumped into her shadow and came up behind Ivy on the other side, "Team up?" She asked when Sparky's eyes turned to the two of them.
"Sorry Reckless, there can only be one king of the hill." Branches wrapped up around Naomi's ankles and Ivy jumped out of the way, a surge of electric power jolted through Naomi sending her to her knees when it faded. The branches had lessened the blow somewhat but her vision was tinged blue from the power Sparky had thrown at her. Naomi looked up as Sparky threw similar 'shock' waves toward Ivy as she ran in a sideways fashion toward her. Sparky was trying to see how much it took to break through Ivy's defenses.
Still somewhat rooted to the spot, Naomi resorted to dropping into her shadow. When she rose again the monitor clicked twice. She'd come up in one of the walls shadows, the clicks brought Sparky's attention to her. Another shot came in her direction.
This time she was ready, she raised her arms bringing her shadow up into a cocoon around her body, a second layer came up around her feet, the petals ran up the electrical current; using it as a path directly to Sparky. She immediately cut off the flow and sent the vine like shadows back to their original place. Naomi dropped the shadow and started up the hill.
Vines came from the other side of the hill as Ivy continued her attack.
Hart knocked once on the door to the control room before entering, "So, who's winning?"
"Sparky's spent the most time as king of the hill." Circuit stated, "But she's fighting back both Reckless and Ivy right now, so I don't know how much longer she'll stay there."
Logan glanced over at Hart, "Why aren't you in the game?"
"I was," Hart began, "This is the second round, I won last round, but they all considered my method cheating." Wolverine raised an eyebrow, "I, ah, influenced them to try every path that wasn't the one to the hill." He shrugged, "Sparky was the first to figure it out and Naomi shadow jumped up behind me and dethroned me, I was barred from playing this round."
"Quite the power you've got there kid." Wolverine stated. "Mess with my head and we'll have problems."
Hart just smiled and looked out the window. The sparks on the walls were beginning to diminish as the plants began to increase, darkness crept along the bottoms of the walls. "So, where's Rune hiding at?"
"Just outside the inner paths, I think he's waiting for the girls to finish their spat." Circuit stated.
The electrical power faded completely as Sparky lost her hold on the hill.
It felt like she was being hugged by the tree as roots wrapped tighter around her, pinning her arms to her sides. Ivy climbed to the top of the hill and smiled, "Say uncle." She said in a sweet voice.
Naomi shook her head and closed her eyes, cracks spread across her face as her shadow, in a sense, rammed up around her, sharpened black edges slicing through the wood, "I'm not done yet." She stated when the last of the roots were cut away. She opened her now white eyes, "Hit me with your best shot."
Ivy eeped suddenly as she began to float up from the top of the hill. Rune came walking lazily toward the hill, "Sorry, was I interrupting?"
Annoyed the floating girl brought up vines from below her, they turned and shot toward Rune. They stopped mid-air, they continued to try and reach him but could only go around his bubble of outward pressing gravity. Rune smiled, "Fun game Naomi, who told you about king of the hill?"
Yeah, its a slightly shorter chapter, but I wanted to put all of the fight between Rune and Naomi in one chapter, if I can manage. Keep reading everyone, I love my lurkers, even if they don't give me reviews!