You're Guardian Angel
Chapter 38 A heart of Fire and Glass
He awoke in the cabin, Ember sitting over him. he had a damp rag on his forehead, he could feel, and smell his skin, with burns to the sixth degree. An almost tingling sensation ran over each one, as they healed, along with the re-growing skin, even over the Adamantium bones. Ember yelled loudly, as a pacing Lauren rushed over, looking down at him. "You…great…worry…care." He only caught a few words; his ears were still healing as well. Lauren closed her eyes, as his vision blurred, and then he felt her and Lauren in his mind. "Don't worry, me and Kendra are taking care of you." He could hear her sigh through the path. "Karth, what happened?"
Unable to keep them open any longer, he closed his eyes, only a few select images of the explosion, however, he had no memory of Hope at all; it was as if she were never there. Lauren stood. "Don't worry, we are going to call the Mansion."
His hand shot up, grabbing her gently by the arm, no longer controlled by his brain. "No…you'd endanger all those…who'd come." His weakened voice sounded through the telepathic fibers.
Lauren gasped at the unexpected motion. "You need medical attention!" she pleaded. "The could get here in the Blackbird X2 in minuets and be gone even faster."
Karthak shook his head, a shock lashing out, calling Ember closer. He placed a picture of the Phoenix in her mind and instructed her to form it out of fire. She obeyed, and to her own shocking surprise as well as Laurens, it looked more real than any previous creation Ember made. Karths body rose off of the couch, his eyes closed. When he opened them, a small wave of fire engulfed his pupil momentarily.
"Kendra, Lauren run! I'm in his head, stopping it but the second class 5 mutants going to get unleashed. Logan's close, he's at the gas station!" the voice of Charles cut off, and Karth stood up.
"So…he admits it. I'm Logan's son. my memories are real, and I'm unstoppable!" he stood, his healing factor increasing a hundredfold faster than Logan's. "Lauren…" he embraced her whispering. "Something's coming. A creature of great evil or greater good." With those words, his legs gave way and he collapsed in Embers direction, her telekinesis catching inches before his head smashed against the floor Lauren staring at her in awe.
"What the hell just happened?" Lauren asked, once they set him gently back onto the couch.
"I-I don't know, his mind…it wasn't his own. I know one of them was the Professor, the other…It was raw power; I could feel it through the fibers you placed. It had a voice, how Storm said Dr. Grey was before Logan killed her!"
Nakish trailed through the door, whimpering as he sat next to the couch, placed his head on Karths gently rising and falling chest.
The hours passed, and eventually Karth came back around, finally being able to stand with only minor discoloration. He stood in the kitchen, boiling some water, with Kendra sitting at the hall, watching.
"You know I could do that much faster." Karth laughed at the statement, hearing Embers soft voice.
"Dearie, trust me I know, I was hoping you'd comment on it, I need you to flash boil all the water in the bath tub." He was still a bit distant, but much more nicer to her. she nodded, backing to the dock running her fingers through the bottom of the tub, lines of fire appearing, even under the warm water, as it bubbled and boiled. Karthak smiled, feeling the house warm to a degree, knowing it was safer for Kendra to be warm. She walked up beside him, and the stove, taping her long fingers on the counter, leaving trails of fire where they went. He eyed the still healing wound on her forehead, the cuts on her fingers and arms. They were truly healing faster, but there was still the chance of hyperthermia if caught in the cold too long. "Where's Lauren?" she finally asked, breaking the still silence.
"Flying." He whispered, pouring in a pack of blood.
Lauren ascended higher and higher, soaring towards the heavens onl when she looked down, and realized she could barely see anything did she decide to return to earth. She did a 180 turn and pointed her body downwards, her wings tucked in securely to her body in a deadly freefall.
The icy air, rushing past her powerfully built body, stung every inch of her, as she shot through the clouds. The bone chilling wind let her know that she was still alive, for the slight stinging sensation she felt from the Freezing air, and massive altitude would have surly killed any mortal human. But she was no longer sensitive to the cold as she once had been.
She kept a steady pace as the ground rushed at her, Closer, and closer; she didn't even show any signs of slowing down or stopping. Fifty feet, forty feet, thirty feet, twenty feet away from the ground, with nothing but the sound of rushing wind in her ear.Suddenly, she released her wings, with less than five feet to go. From the speed of her decent, and the sudden pull out, she was at a set projector rate of seven hundred twenty nine. The fastest she had ever been.
She continued on, a shadow in the darkness of the worlds. She sped forward, towards a crystal black lake. Flying over it, she could see her own face hid in the dark and loneliness. She reached out a hand and let the cool fluid run over her fingers, as the spray hit her in the face, and hair. It felt so good to have the flowing water over her body. She flew upwards towards the clouds, thinking of Ember.
"Whose blood?" Ember asked looking in the pot.
"Laurens." He whispered, showing her the empty pack Lauren had given to him. Kendra nodded increasing the fire around the pot; thin particles of blood covered everything nearby. Karth smiled, as the sight of the girl's cuts next to him gave Karthak an idea.
"Have you ever seen a fusion reaction before? Or one started by blood?" she shook her head. Karths fangs extended with a Snikt, and he bit his bottom lip, dropping a small stream of blood into the boiling cocktail, mixing with Laurens causing pulses of reddish light causing the room to warm up to Phoenix Arizona heat, as Kendra smiled removing her jacket. The blood mix acted at once, melting all the permafrost on and around the house. All over Kendra's body, and newly opened cuts was tinny droplets of Laurens blood.
"Maybe I should shower…this blood's getting everywhere!" She walked to the bath room, pulling her soaked clothing, separating it from her skin, letting it cover her completely. Karth watched her walk away going to the doors, opening them as the red mist floated out. Karth closed his eyes and inhaled the particles. It was becoming so common for him to be around there blood, so much in fact that it was easier to deny the thirst. Lauren landed a few feet away, tucking her hot wings in, after the house had aired out and now only held the heat.
"Trying to heat all of Canada?" she laughed hearing the shower. Karth shrugged leaning against the house. "Kendra's spending a lot of time in the shower lately."
That brought a dirty smile to his lips. "Yeah, with you that is." He turned. "I taught her how to heat the house if I were to be comatose." Lauren laughed softly as the door beside them jarred, and Ember stood there with a towel wrapped around her chest and waist.
"Lauren…" She turned walking back to the bathroom. Karth moved behind Lauren, giving her a hard shove in the direction of her lover.
"Go, eat, do whatever it is you lesbians do." He smirked. "I'm going hunting."
He tossed the gun onto the couch walking back out the door. "Don't you need that?" Lauren piped. A laugh emitting from Karth as his fangs extended and closed the door.
Outside the clouds were changing, there was a blizzard on the way and it was going to be a big one. From the look of it, Pyro would be caught in it this very second if he didn't move very far once they left. Karth disappeared into the tree line.
Lauren walked into the bathroom, only to find that it was empty. "So that's how you want to play it then." She whispered, as she searched the Fire Tie, only to find that Kendra was blocking it. "Okay, I see, we can play it your way." She turned, when she head the creak of the door behind her. Cautiously waking into the bed room, she expected to see Kendra on the bed, either naked or in the towel, but found neither. In stead, there sat a blue, heart made out of Embers fire. Lauren walked over, gently picking up the artifact.
It wasn't heavy, but it felt as though it were made of glass and on the inside the marvelous blue flame flickered and moved as if it were a living creature. Kendra's arms wrapped around Laurens waist, she whispered into her ear as she rested her head on the Lauren's shoulder.
"Do you hate it?" she asked in a tinny voice, eyeing her creation momentarily before gazing at the bewildered Lauren.
"No, I love it! Wait a minuet; did you and Karthak plan this?"
"We planed this after you left, to go flying, but that was it…" her voice trailed off, but was soon forgotten in a passionate kiss from Lauren.
Yes, I know I already used the heart thing, but in all fairness, I like this one so much more!lol I also used the flying scene from an earlier chapter I think…I don't know, I took it from another one of my stories, so if it says him in there…just ignore it…R&R please!