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edited it, I can't remember and I hate editing. Anyway, I don't own the
stuff, blah blah blah. You get the idea.
Chapter Five
By: Bladefire
Draco and Ken raced down the hall until they ran into Rogue who was wearing an X-men costume of black with green on the shoulders as well as a few green highlights on the costume.
"What's going on?" Ken asked as they followed her to the stairs.
"I don't know. Just follow me." Rogue led them down the stairs to just outside the front of the mansion. The rest of the team looked to be there already. Before them was a band of mutants led by a shaggy man with really long nails.
"Sabertooth."
Ken looked over to see Logan snarling under his orange and blue mask.
"Wolverine." The shaggy man snarled back.
"I'm sure you're both having a nice reunion but what the hell is going on?!" Draco demanded.
"None of your business kid." Logan snapped.
Draco scowled, "Don't call me kid."
Ken placed a hand on her shoulder, "Not now D…Laura."
"What do you want Sabertooth?" Logan growled.
"I'm here for you Wolverine, but these guys here are for the girl and then the old man."
/The telepaths!/ Ken looked and saw Jean and the Professor were with them.
/Do you think we can trust them now?/ Draco asked.
/There's a very good saying for times like these. The enemy of my enemy is my friend./
Draco groaned, /Ken!!/
Ken grinned, /For now we can trust them. Later if they prove us wrong we can leave./
/Amanda? Whitewing? Do you agree?/ Draco called. They would decide as a group.
For an answer, Whitewing's astral projection landed at their feet. This time he chose to battle as a hawk, a really big colourful hawk. Then without warning Amanda fell to the ground landing in a crouch in front of the group, her tail lashing back and forth.
"All right! Let's kick some ass!!!" Draco said with a laugh.
Sabertooth started the battle. He ripped one of the battered gates off its hinges and threw it at them. But it stopped mid-air before flying back into the group of intruders, causing them to scatter.
"Good work Jean." Scott said as he held a hand to his visor.
"Thanks but that wasn't me." Jean looked a little nervous.
"Then who was it?" Scott asked confused.
"You can thank me later." Amanda said without turning.
"Sabertooth is mine." Logan growled. He leapt forward and charged at Sabertooth. Several in the group behind Logan and Sabertooth looked familiar.
"Men!" Draco muttered, "There's so many easier ways to do things than with your fists."
"Then might I suggest you do them now. We are a little out numbered. I count at least twenty nine to our twelve." Kurt looked from Draco to the enemy and then back to Draco.
"Hmm, Amanda can you do this?" Draco asked.
Amanda nodded.
"Good." Flames engulfed her hands. She made a gesture and the fire moved forward circled the group ahead of them. Most moved away from the flames but a few others started to extinguish them with water. Then the earth started to shake as cement cracked and dirt came up to surround the trapped intruders.
"Let's see them get out of that." Draco said with a grin. Both her and Ken put their hands on Amanda's shoulders as the giant ball lifted up. Whitewing flew ahead giving Amanda a way to see where to move the ball. Draco fed Amanda energy to keep going while Ken first cast an illusion around the giant ball and bird and then systematically erased their location from twenty-nine minds. Finally Amanda dropped the ball into a lake several miles away. Whitewing's astral projection disappeared and Ken sighed in relief that no one had been hurt. With the exception of Logan and Sabertooth, they were still battling away. Amanda smoothed out the driveway with Draco's help before finally collapsing from exhaustion. Draco swayed a bit but was well enough to glare at the two full grown men still fighting.
"I've met children who were better behaved." Draco grumbled.
"They have a bit of a history." Evan offered.
"I don't care." She glared at the two. She focused her mind of Sabertooth but found that the Professor had beaten her to it.
"Aww. I wanted to knock the bonehead out." Draco pouted.
Ken shook his head, "Draco. It's not our problem. Let's leave these people to their own thing. They seem to know what to do with him."
Draco sighed but nodded, "Yeah, okay." She knelt down beside Amanda and check for a pulse. She found a weak but steady pulse.
"Let's get her inside." Ken knelt and picked her up.
/A bed's already./ Whitewing reported./My bed right?/
/Well, it was the closest./ They got the impression of Whitewing shrugging his shoulders.
Ken and Draco turned and found the X-men looking at them.
"What?" Draco smiled, "Did my goggles crack?"
She pulled the silver goggles off her head and checked them out.
"They're fine Laura." Ken smiled, "But your hair is looking a little flat."
"WHAT!!" Draco pushed through the group of X-men trying to get into the mansion and the nearest mirror.
Whitewing laughed in Ken's mind as he made his way after Draco.
"If you'll excuse me I'll just put my friend away here and I'll be right back."
Ken excused himself as Logan walked up to them with Sabertooth slung over his shoulder.
"My hair was NOT flat." Draco glared at Ken. "Must have been my imagination." Ken said as he sat in a chair in Draco's room. Amanda was still unconscious on the bed and Whitewing was sitting on the dresser.
"What are you going to tell the Professor and his group? They already know you didn't tell the truth about something's." Whitewing asked.
"You? Don't you mean we? You're coming with us." Draco glared at Whitewing.
The winged teen shook his head, "No way. Do you want Amanda to wake up here by herself? What if she doesn't remember where she is or something? She could get violent.
Ken nodded, "That's true. I think Draco and I can handle this. Or we could put it off until Amanda wakes up."
"I like that idea." Draco said quickly, "I never did like talking to teachers. The more people there the less they'll yell...I hope."
Whitewing looked at Draco in confusion, "What?"
Draco blinked, "I don't know."
Amanda chose that moment to moan, bringing a clawed hand to her head.
"No! Go back to sleep!" Draco yelped.
"Draco!" Ken looked shocked at Draco's behaviour.
Draco looked innocent; "I have her best interests at heart. She needs lots of rest because she has exhausted herself. It just so happens that her best interests work well with mine."
"Draco." Came Amanda's weak voice, "Put a sock in it."
Draco grinned, "Well I had to try."
"What's this about Draco?" Ken asked, worried about his best friend, "This isn't like you."
Draco scowled, "I'm sorry, I just...I just don't want to leave. If they kick us out we can't go back to my aunts with out some uncomfortable questions being raised. I don't want to have to go back to traveling around the country side so soon."
"Why would they kick us out? We have a very logical reason for doing what we did. It's not our looks, cause remember Kurt?"
"Not because of that but we brought the Brotherhood down on them." Draco looked miserable. She didn't like getting other people in trouble.
"They were already in trouble with the Brotherhood. They have a group that lives in the same town with them."
Draco looked confused for a moment, and then she smiled.
"Oh yeah! I totally forgot!!" Draco laughed at herself, "Sorry. I guess that was a little stupid."
"Not at all." Ken said, watching Draco with a smile on his face.
There was a silence until Whitewing groaned, "Get a room you two."
"What?"
"Huh?"
Draco and Ken turned and looked Whitewing in confusion.
"You two kept staring at each other. It's disturbing."
"At least their quiet when they do that." Amanda growled as she tried to sit up.
"What are you getting at? So I like to talk. Big deal." Whitewing grinned, "You know you love me anyway."
Amanda rolled her eyes, "Whatever."
"Amanda you should stay in bed. You're still exhausted from before." Ken quickly changed the topic. An annoyed Amanda wasn't a happy Amanda.
"I'm fine." She growled, "I'm not going to stay in bed."
She tossed the covers aside and tried to get up. Her legs held her for a moment before she fell. Draco and Ken both jumped to catch her but it wasn't' necessary.
They looked down at a black cat that lay on the floor staring at them.
"You carry her." Ken said suddenly, "You can use your healing power."
"My healing power only works on actually hurt stuff not exhaustion." Draco paused as both her and Ken stared down at an irate Amanda, "She doesn't look too happy does she?"
"No, she looks a little ticked off." Ken answered then there was silence.
"Oh for..." Whitewing leapt off the dresser, "You two are such chickens." He pushed Draco aside and picked Amanda up in his wings.
"That's easy for you to say. You don't have vulnerable skin to loose." Draco retorted.
/Just remember, you need to sleep sometime./ came Amanda's weak voice.
Draco grinned, "You wouldn't do anything to me. You need us to carry you."
Amanda said nothing just stared at them unblinkingly.
"I think it's time we go now." Ken said suddenly and headed out the door followed closely by Draco.
Whitewing chuckled, "You didn't really mean that did you?"
/No./
Whitewing grinned as he stared for the door, "Don't worry then. Your secrets safe with me, I know you really do care about them and me."
Amanda hissed but said nothing more.
They stood outside of an oaken door and Draco knocked. They could here voices within pause as someone stood and came to the door. It opened to reveal Kitty who stood back to admit them into the room.
"Hello again!" Draco said cheerfully.
Ken shook his head; Draco's ability to shrug something off once it was settled still amazed him. Did nothing truly bother her for long?
"Um…Hi." Kitty replied, giving Draco a strange look.
"Please sit down." The Professor gestured to an empty couch.
Ken moved first with the others following him. They sat down on the stuffed chair and waited.
"I don't remember seeing you before." Logan glared at Whitewing.
Amanda hissed but Whitewing just grinned.
"Oh I've been around. My name's Brandon but everyone calls me Whitewing." Whitewing said cheerfully. When he wanted to he could be as annoying as Draco and right now he had apparently chosen to do so.
"You saw me earlier. Actually you saw my astral projection. It's a spiritual thing. Depending on the shape I'm in as to what my astral self looks like. It's really a lot of fun and no one can hurt me." Whitewing held up Amanda, "And this is Amanda or sometimes know as Catseye. She's the irritable one of our group. She's also the cat lady you saw earlier. Normally she'll just ignore you but sometimes she's just dangerous to be around. Then there's Ken or Illusion, I guess you could say he's the leader but it's more of a group thing. Then last but not least is Draco her real name is Laura but sometime she forgets that. She's the one you really have to watch out for. She talks a mile a minute and if you get in her way if she's hungry then it's you own fault."
Finally he stopped to breath. There was silence.
/Wow. I think you took about 3 breaths during that whole thing./ Ken said in shock, /That just about as bad as Draco./
"That's it. I gotta practice more." Draco decided.
Amanda snorted, /You certainly do not!/
Draco and Whitewing snickered. Offended Amanda rose and walked across them to settle on Ken's lap.
"I'm not even going to pretend to understand that." Scott said finally.
"Which part?" Ken asked.
"I think I understood the first part and as for the last part I just don't want to know."
The Professor moved his chair forward a bit, "Amanda, it is quite all right for you to be in your human form."
Amanda stared back with a cat's unwavering gaze until finally the Professor looked away.
"Amanda doesn't have the strength to move in her human body. But as a cat she can be carried around." Ken explained.
"Ah, I suppose that makes sense." Jean said confusion written on her face.
Ken smiled kindly at Jean, "Don't worry. We're harmless."
Logan rolled his eyes, "Right and Sabertooth is a kitten."
"Well, we wouldn't harm anyone without a good reason." Ken amended.
"That's right!" Draco and Whitewing said together.
"That's good. Right now I'd like to know more about your powers and what do you know about the Brotherhood." The Professor asked.
Draco, Whitewing, Ken and Amanda all glanced at each other. Finally Ken nodded, they'd have to trust someone else soon or later. It might as well be sooner.
To be continued…
Chapter Five
By: Bladefire
Draco and Ken raced down the hall until they ran into Rogue who was wearing an X-men costume of black with green on the shoulders as well as a few green highlights on the costume.
"What's going on?" Ken asked as they followed her to the stairs.
"I don't know. Just follow me." Rogue led them down the stairs to just outside the front of the mansion. The rest of the team looked to be there already. Before them was a band of mutants led by a shaggy man with really long nails.
"Sabertooth."
Ken looked over to see Logan snarling under his orange and blue mask.
"Wolverine." The shaggy man snarled back.
"I'm sure you're both having a nice reunion but what the hell is going on?!" Draco demanded.
"None of your business kid." Logan snapped.
Draco scowled, "Don't call me kid."
Ken placed a hand on her shoulder, "Not now D…Laura."
"What do you want Sabertooth?" Logan growled.
"I'm here for you Wolverine, but these guys here are for the girl and then the old man."
/The telepaths!/ Ken looked and saw Jean and the Professor were with them.
/Do you think we can trust them now?/ Draco asked.
/There's a very good saying for times like these. The enemy of my enemy is my friend./
Draco groaned, /Ken!!/
Ken grinned, /For now we can trust them. Later if they prove us wrong we can leave./
/Amanda? Whitewing? Do you agree?/ Draco called. They would decide as a group.
For an answer, Whitewing's astral projection landed at their feet. This time he chose to battle as a hawk, a really big colourful hawk. Then without warning Amanda fell to the ground landing in a crouch in front of the group, her tail lashing back and forth.
"All right! Let's kick some ass!!!" Draco said with a laugh.
Sabertooth started the battle. He ripped one of the battered gates off its hinges and threw it at them. But it stopped mid-air before flying back into the group of intruders, causing them to scatter.
"Good work Jean." Scott said as he held a hand to his visor.
"Thanks but that wasn't me." Jean looked a little nervous.
"Then who was it?" Scott asked confused.
"You can thank me later." Amanda said without turning.
"Sabertooth is mine." Logan growled. He leapt forward and charged at Sabertooth. Several in the group behind Logan and Sabertooth looked familiar.
"Men!" Draco muttered, "There's so many easier ways to do things than with your fists."
"Then might I suggest you do them now. We are a little out numbered. I count at least twenty nine to our twelve." Kurt looked from Draco to the enemy and then back to Draco.
"Hmm, Amanda can you do this?" Draco asked.
Amanda nodded.
"Good." Flames engulfed her hands. She made a gesture and the fire moved forward circled the group ahead of them. Most moved away from the flames but a few others started to extinguish them with water. Then the earth started to shake as cement cracked and dirt came up to surround the trapped intruders.
"Let's see them get out of that." Draco said with a grin. Both her and Ken put their hands on Amanda's shoulders as the giant ball lifted up. Whitewing flew ahead giving Amanda a way to see where to move the ball. Draco fed Amanda energy to keep going while Ken first cast an illusion around the giant ball and bird and then systematically erased their location from twenty-nine minds. Finally Amanda dropped the ball into a lake several miles away. Whitewing's astral projection disappeared and Ken sighed in relief that no one had been hurt. With the exception of Logan and Sabertooth, they were still battling away. Amanda smoothed out the driveway with Draco's help before finally collapsing from exhaustion. Draco swayed a bit but was well enough to glare at the two full grown men still fighting.
"I've met children who were better behaved." Draco grumbled.
"They have a bit of a history." Evan offered.
"I don't care." She glared at the two. She focused her mind of Sabertooth but found that the Professor had beaten her to it.
"Aww. I wanted to knock the bonehead out." Draco pouted.
Ken shook his head, "Draco. It's not our problem. Let's leave these people to their own thing. They seem to know what to do with him."
Draco sighed but nodded, "Yeah, okay." She knelt down beside Amanda and check for a pulse. She found a weak but steady pulse.
"Let's get her inside." Ken knelt and picked her up.
/A bed's already./ Whitewing reported./My bed right?/
/Well, it was the closest./ They got the impression of Whitewing shrugging his shoulders.
Ken and Draco turned and found the X-men looking at them.
"What?" Draco smiled, "Did my goggles crack?"
She pulled the silver goggles off her head and checked them out.
"They're fine Laura." Ken smiled, "But your hair is looking a little flat."
"WHAT!!" Draco pushed through the group of X-men trying to get into the mansion and the nearest mirror.
Whitewing laughed in Ken's mind as he made his way after Draco.
"If you'll excuse me I'll just put my friend away here and I'll be right back."
Ken excused himself as Logan walked up to them with Sabertooth slung over his shoulder.
"My hair was NOT flat." Draco glared at Ken. "Must have been my imagination." Ken said as he sat in a chair in Draco's room. Amanda was still unconscious on the bed and Whitewing was sitting on the dresser.
"What are you going to tell the Professor and his group? They already know you didn't tell the truth about something's." Whitewing asked.
"You? Don't you mean we? You're coming with us." Draco glared at Whitewing.
The winged teen shook his head, "No way. Do you want Amanda to wake up here by herself? What if she doesn't remember where she is or something? She could get violent.
Ken nodded, "That's true. I think Draco and I can handle this. Or we could put it off until Amanda wakes up."
"I like that idea." Draco said quickly, "I never did like talking to teachers. The more people there the less they'll yell...I hope."
Whitewing looked at Draco in confusion, "What?"
Draco blinked, "I don't know."
Amanda chose that moment to moan, bringing a clawed hand to her head.
"No! Go back to sleep!" Draco yelped.
"Draco!" Ken looked shocked at Draco's behaviour.
Draco looked innocent; "I have her best interests at heart. She needs lots of rest because she has exhausted herself. It just so happens that her best interests work well with mine."
"Draco." Came Amanda's weak voice, "Put a sock in it."
Draco grinned, "Well I had to try."
"What's this about Draco?" Ken asked, worried about his best friend, "This isn't like you."
Draco scowled, "I'm sorry, I just...I just don't want to leave. If they kick us out we can't go back to my aunts with out some uncomfortable questions being raised. I don't want to have to go back to traveling around the country side so soon."
"Why would they kick us out? We have a very logical reason for doing what we did. It's not our looks, cause remember Kurt?"
"Not because of that but we brought the Brotherhood down on them." Draco looked miserable. She didn't like getting other people in trouble.
"They were already in trouble with the Brotherhood. They have a group that lives in the same town with them."
Draco looked confused for a moment, and then she smiled.
"Oh yeah! I totally forgot!!" Draco laughed at herself, "Sorry. I guess that was a little stupid."
"Not at all." Ken said, watching Draco with a smile on his face.
There was a silence until Whitewing groaned, "Get a room you two."
"What?"
"Huh?"
Draco and Ken turned and looked Whitewing in confusion.
"You two kept staring at each other. It's disturbing."
"At least their quiet when they do that." Amanda growled as she tried to sit up.
"What are you getting at? So I like to talk. Big deal." Whitewing grinned, "You know you love me anyway."
Amanda rolled her eyes, "Whatever."
"Amanda you should stay in bed. You're still exhausted from before." Ken quickly changed the topic. An annoyed Amanda wasn't a happy Amanda.
"I'm fine." She growled, "I'm not going to stay in bed."
She tossed the covers aside and tried to get up. Her legs held her for a moment before she fell. Draco and Ken both jumped to catch her but it wasn't' necessary.
They looked down at a black cat that lay on the floor staring at them.
"You carry her." Ken said suddenly, "You can use your healing power."
"My healing power only works on actually hurt stuff not exhaustion." Draco paused as both her and Ken stared down at an irate Amanda, "She doesn't look too happy does she?"
"No, she looks a little ticked off." Ken answered then there was silence.
"Oh for..." Whitewing leapt off the dresser, "You two are such chickens." He pushed Draco aside and picked Amanda up in his wings.
"That's easy for you to say. You don't have vulnerable skin to loose." Draco retorted.
/Just remember, you need to sleep sometime./ came Amanda's weak voice.
Draco grinned, "You wouldn't do anything to me. You need us to carry you."
Amanda said nothing just stared at them unblinkingly.
"I think it's time we go now." Ken said suddenly and headed out the door followed closely by Draco.
Whitewing chuckled, "You didn't really mean that did you?"
/No./
Whitewing grinned as he stared for the door, "Don't worry then. Your secrets safe with me, I know you really do care about them and me."
Amanda hissed but said nothing more.
They stood outside of an oaken door and Draco knocked. They could here voices within pause as someone stood and came to the door. It opened to reveal Kitty who stood back to admit them into the room.
"Hello again!" Draco said cheerfully.
Ken shook his head; Draco's ability to shrug something off once it was settled still amazed him. Did nothing truly bother her for long?
"Um…Hi." Kitty replied, giving Draco a strange look.
"Please sit down." The Professor gestured to an empty couch.
Ken moved first with the others following him. They sat down on the stuffed chair and waited.
"I don't remember seeing you before." Logan glared at Whitewing.
Amanda hissed but Whitewing just grinned.
"Oh I've been around. My name's Brandon but everyone calls me Whitewing." Whitewing said cheerfully. When he wanted to he could be as annoying as Draco and right now he had apparently chosen to do so.
"You saw me earlier. Actually you saw my astral projection. It's a spiritual thing. Depending on the shape I'm in as to what my astral self looks like. It's really a lot of fun and no one can hurt me." Whitewing held up Amanda, "And this is Amanda or sometimes know as Catseye. She's the irritable one of our group. She's also the cat lady you saw earlier. Normally she'll just ignore you but sometimes she's just dangerous to be around. Then there's Ken or Illusion, I guess you could say he's the leader but it's more of a group thing. Then last but not least is Draco her real name is Laura but sometime she forgets that. She's the one you really have to watch out for. She talks a mile a minute and if you get in her way if she's hungry then it's you own fault."
Finally he stopped to breath. There was silence.
/Wow. I think you took about 3 breaths during that whole thing./ Ken said in shock, /That just about as bad as Draco./
"That's it. I gotta practice more." Draco decided.
Amanda snorted, /You certainly do not!/
Draco and Whitewing snickered. Offended Amanda rose and walked across them to settle on Ken's lap.
"I'm not even going to pretend to understand that." Scott said finally.
"Which part?" Ken asked.
"I think I understood the first part and as for the last part I just don't want to know."
The Professor moved his chair forward a bit, "Amanda, it is quite all right for you to be in your human form."
Amanda stared back with a cat's unwavering gaze until finally the Professor looked away.
"Amanda doesn't have the strength to move in her human body. But as a cat she can be carried around." Ken explained.
"Ah, I suppose that makes sense." Jean said confusion written on her face.
Ken smiled kindly at Jean, "Don't worry. We're harmless."
Logan rolled his eyes, "Right and Sabertooth is a kitten."
"Well, we wouldn't harm anyone without a good reason." Ken amended.
"That's right!" Draco and Whitewing said together.
"That's good. Right now I'd like to know more about your powers and what do you know about the Brotherhood." The Professor asked.
Draco, Whitewing, Ken and Amanda all glanced at each other. Finally Ken nodded, they'd have to trust someone else soon or later. It might as well be sooner.
To be continued…