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Author's note: This is the last chapter for now. Given time I may come up with something else to write about with Jarek and company. Hope you have enjoyed readying my story. Also please review this if you read it since it may help with future chapters.
Battle Joined
Jarek couldn't believe that he was going to go to a concert with his friends. What was he thinking he wondered. He wasn't a fan of music in the first place and he had no idea who they were going to see. He also had no liking of large gatherings of people like those that gather at a concert to see their favorite artists. Man he was not in the mood to go but he had said that he would and so he would. He always kept his word.
Jarek was getting dressed when Kitty and the rest of them crowded into his room. He was standing there wearing nothing but his shorts and he noticed that the girls all blushed. Jarek gave them his half-smile and continued to dress. Serves them right he thought. Just barging into a man's room and then being shocked at what they saw. They should have known better.
Jarek finished dressing and went over to his dresser and was about to pick up his knives when he thought better of it. He didn't know if they would search people and he didn't really feel like going to jail if they did search him and found the knives on him. He turned to the assembled friends and said, "Well I guess I am ready. Let's go."
The group jumped into various vehicles in order to ride to the theatre where the concert was to be at. They tore out of the garage and went on down the road. Everyone but Jarek was happy to be going to see the concert. The guys wanted to see a new all female band. The girls were, wanting to see some now boy band. They didn't want anyone to know it but they did kind of like the songs that they sang. Jarek of course hadn't been told who they were going to see. It was a surprise Kitty had told him and he didn't know if he was going to even like who was singing. He only liked certain music and he only listened rarely for he was always doing something else.
Every one of Jarek's friends had dressed in nice cloths to go to the concert but Jarek had put on normal cloths. He wanted a free range of movement if he had to fight and dress cloths just didn't allow that. He was fighter and as such was always thinking on how to keep himself from being slowed down by anything around him.
Kitty was riding with him and they talked of mundane things and things that were unimportant until Kitty said, "Jarek why haven't you ever asked me out on a date. I would like to know. Don't you like me?"
Jarek was hoping that she would never ask that. He didn't know what to tell her except to tell her the truth of the matter. "Kitty it is not that I don't like you. You have to remember that I have never been on a date. The reasons I don't ask you are simple. I don't know how to act on a date whereas I know how to act when you and I are with our friends. Another reason is that I have been afraid. I have no courage when it comes to beautiful ladies. I was afraid to ask you for fear that you would reject me even though you have always been so nice to me," Jarek said slowly.
"I wouldn't have rejected you. I was waiting for you to ask me so that we could be a couple like the others," Kitty said to Jarek softly.
"I am sorry Kitty I never meant to hurt you in any way. Would you like to go out with me sometime, just the two of us," Jarek asked.
Kitty looked up and her eyes held joy that was easily seen by Jarek who felt better now that he had asked her. "Yes I would love to go out with you Jarek. I though that you would never ask," Kitty said happily as they drove down the road.
They all arrived at the concert and stood in line waiting to get in. They stood for over twenty minutes and Jarek was starting to get restless. He wanted to get in and sit down because he was tired of the people all pushing and shoving. Man how he wanted to just grab them and toss them around for awhile.
Finally though the group was let into the place and they all went to their seats. The girls wanted some refreshments as well as popcorn and other such things and so the guys were stuck with going and getting it. Well they volunteered and Jarek thought that he could learn from them and so he went with them.
The music was going and the boy and was up first. The girls were screaming and making loud noises and Jarek wished that he hadn't agreed to go to the damn concert. His ears were hurting and so was the rest of him. He was not having a good time. The girls though were having a great time.
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Sinister looked around at his band and smiled. He knew that they were going to kill Jarek and his sister shortly and it made him feel good inside to know that a failed experiment would not be running loose. "All right now. When the groups change then we will attack the next group. Jarek will come to their aid because it is the way he is. Then we will kill him and the rest of them," Sinister said smiling.
The acts changed and the all girl group came up on the stage. Sinister held his hand up for them to wait. He wanted the first song to start before he attacked. He knew what he was doing and he knew how Jarek would react. It was the privilege of being the creator of something to know how it will react under certain circumstances.
As the girls were into their first song a minute or so Sinister started to laugh as he signaled for his boys to go to work. They came out of their hiding places and charged the stage. They ran up onto it and grabbed the girls who were singing. The first man brought up a glowing knife and was about to drive it into the throat of the girl he held when his hand exploded.
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Jarek and the rest of them were enjoying the song being sung by the all girl group when all hell broke loose. A bunch of men appeared out of nowhere and jumped up on the stage and grabbed the girls. One man had a glowing knife at the girls throat he was holding when Remy charged one of his cards and threw it. The card hit the man in the hand and exploded destroying the man's hand.
He screamed in agony but Jarek was paying any attention. He jumped up onto the stage and ran to the first man that he saw. The man had a harpoon of glowing energy and he hurled it at Jarek who dodged to the side but took a cut to his ribs. Jarek continued forward and created his blazing swords of light and drove them into the man's chest killing him.
Behind Jarek people were scrambling to get out of the building. They were moving fast and then there were his friends who had jumped up onto the stage as well. Then some security guards came running out onto the stage only to be killed with ease by the renegade mutants.
"Let the girls go," Jarek yelled to the men. Now that they were together he could tell there were about a dozen or more. He knew that he could take some of them but he feared for his sister and the rest of them. It was the way he was.
"We can't let them go until you die. You see you have angered Sinister for being a failed experiment. You have to pay for that Jarek," One of the men yelled back to Jarek.
"Fine kill me then just let the girls go," Jarek answered him.
Just then a gun shot rang out and Jarek noticed that Kitty fell. He ran over to her side and knelt down. She was covered in blood, her own blood. She had been shot in the side and Jarek didn't know if anything vital had been hit. He let out an anguished yell full of pain and loss as he felt that he was going to lose her. He stood up slowly and turned around.
"One chance to live. Let the girls go and leave otherwise you all die right here," Jarek said as his eyes started to glow slightly. His voice was as cold as a artic wind.
The men shoved aside the girls and started to move forward and then the battle commenced. Remy threw one of his cards at the man who he had blown his hand off. The card hit the man on the chest and flung him back off the stage.
Logan charged a man who was covered in metal and started slashing at him with his claws. His claws were only making small wounds in the man and he was strong. He hit Logan and sent him flying through the air. Logan slowly rose and knew then that he would have to use his speed in order to win that fight.
Jubilee shot her energy blasts at the two men who were bearing down on her and partially blinded them though that didn't stop them from charging straight into her. They knocked her to the ground and one of the men hit her in the face knocking her out. They weren't there for her they were there to kill Jarek and Andrea.
Rogue flew up into the air and used her speed to land punch after punch on a man that was trying to get her. He was covered in long hair and looked more animal than human. Just then Rogue moved a little too slow and he grabbed her and pulled her from the air and smashed her into the wood of the stage. She didn't move from where she landed.
Bobby was using his ice ability and he had one man coated in ice so that he couldn't move but then he met someone with the exact opposite of his own power. The man was on fire and the two of them went at it. Bobby fired his ice at the man and the man fired balls of fire right back at Bobby who was doing his best to avoid them. Bobby and the man were holding their own against each other as was Logan and the man of steel.
Remy was fighting off two men who were really fast. Remy was using a staff and barely holding his own. Just then one of the men slipped under Remy's guard and punched him in the back. There was a flash of light and Remy lay there unconscious. They two men turned to Jarek then.
Jarek looked around and saw that his sister was fighting a woman who had fingers that were blades. The woman elbowed his sister in the face but his sister didn't even rock on her feet. She absorbed the blow and hit the woman right back and sent the woman flying through the air. His sister turned to look at him and she smiled. Jarek didn't return the smile because it was because of him that this was happening.
Jarek's sister was moving faster he noticed and was definatly stronger. She was beating the crap out of the woman with blades for fingers when a bolt of energy took her in the back and she tumbled forward onto the woman's fingers. The blades sliced his sister and cut her badly. She fell to the ground and Jarek ran over to her. He knelt down next to her then and noticed that she was barely breathing.
Jarek picked her up and carried her over to where Kitty was laying. He layed her down next to Kitty and tears were falling unchecked down his cheeks. Jarek looked up and saw that Logan was badly wounded and Jarek yelled, "Stop it now everyone." To his astonishment everyone did.
At that Jarek walked around picking up his companions and placing them next to each other where Kitty and his sister were. He turned to Logan who was bleeding and breathing heavy and said, "Logan I need you to protect them for me. I won't be able to do it much longer. I have this last battle to do and then if I live then I must leave for the safety of everyone."
Logan nodded his head and said, "All right kid I will protect them. Just make sure you win this battle or else I will have to explain to Kitty what happened."
All of Jarek's enemies were standing together and he smiled at that. They were stupid if they thought that he was going to go and let them kill him so easily. Jarek walked over to where his sister and Kitty were laid down and he knelt there. He looked at his sister and at Kitty and his tears continued to flow. He had promised them that he would protect them and he had failed. He owed them vengeance and he would get it for them.
As he knelt there he started to realize what it meant to have them laying there near death. It meant that his family was dying and he was losing them again. He knew that he would lose his parents if his sister died and he knew pain for the first time in a long time. He felt each of them to make sure they were still alive. He was losing his sister and his girlfriend and there was nothing that he could do about it! His eyes dried and they started to glow. Though they glowed very bright this time and a glow started to surround his own body. The glow was a whitish blue and he stood up and looked at the renegade mutants.
Jarek took a step towards them and where his feet had been standing there was a pool of ice the size and shape of his foot. But what was different was that around the ice there was a burn mark. Jarek took another step and nothing happened then. It was just a fluke or some such thing about Jarek but he was mad. As he looked at the mutants as they started to move into a half circle. His vision was tinged with red and he could tell that he was losing himself to anger and hate. He didn't care at the moment though.
"Stop right there Jarek or everyone one of your friends will die here today," one of the mutants said. The one Jarek took to be the leader.
"They are already dead. There is no reason now for me to worry. You will die here today and join them," Jarek said with a smile on his face.
Jarek counted them and there were only ten of them left. He could take ten of them with ease. They didn't seem to have much for powers compared to him and so he wasn't that worried. Then as if on cue a glowing lasso of energy flew towards Jarek who created his swords and cut the lasso. Then a blast of energy hit him in the chest but Jarek didn't slow down. He charged the first man he saw and the man created a wall of fire in front of him. Jarek ran right through it and cut the man's head off when he reached the other side. The blood spurted and covered Jarek and he laughed.
He turned his head and saw a man walking towards him with glowing hands. The man punched Jarek and there was an explosion but Jarek just stood there even though he felt his ribs shatter. He cut that man down to. There were only eight left and Jarek wasn't going to let any of them live.
Jarek felt teeth bite into the back of his leg and he looked down to see a man that looked more like a spider than a man biting Jarek in the leg. Jarek brought down his sword but before it made it there the blades disappeared. He wondered what was going on but didn't worry about it. He reached down and tore the man's teeth that were shaped like a spider's from his leg. Jarek then twisted the man's neck breaking it. He dropped the man to the ground and then felt a wave of dizziness overcome him. He dropped to his knees.
He knew then that poison was running through his body but he also knew that he had to fight it off if he wanted to live. He forced himself back to his feet and saw the man with metal covering his body start to charge him. Jarek formed a ball of pure light in his hands and threw it at the man. The ball blasted into the man's chest. It went completely through him. The man dropped to the ground his blood staining the stage.
Jarek looked around and saw that one of the mutants had one of the singers and had a gun to her head. Jarek knew that the man holding the girl was the same man that had shot Kitty. Jarek reached behind him and felt for his knife but it wasn't there. "Stop right there Jarek or the girl dies," the man yelled in a panic.
"If I do you will kill her anyway," Jarek said as he formed a knife of pure light in his hand and he threw it. The knife went completely through the man's head dropping him to the stage floor dead. The girl ran forward to Jarek who shoved her aside as the lasso of energy roped Jarek. It started to drain him of his strength immediately. Jarek was wondering what to do when he grabbed the lasso. At that moment he knew that the lasso not only drained his strength but also whatever he wanted to send back through it. The lasso drained memories and such. Jarek knew that because he could feel his memories being pulled away from him. Of course only certain ones were being taken and Jarek was about to change that.
Jarek closed off his mind as he had learned and instead of memories that the lasso choose to steal he sent back to the lasso bearer nothing but all the pain that Jarek had felt in his life. He sent the pain and the suffering and Jarek knew that what all that would do would be killing the man. Sure enough the lasso disappeared and Jarek moved onto another target.
There were but five left and they were frightened. One of them was the woman with the blades for fingers and she charged Jarek as did the other four. One of the men shot a blast of energy at Jarek who just stood there and took it. Jarek created his swords of light again and hacked at the woman. She tried to block the swords with her fingers but the blades cut through them. Jarek then cut into her side and his blade passed completely through her. She fell to the ground dead. Jarek looked down at her and noticed that she was nothing but a machine though and so he felt no remorse. She hadn't been human.
Jarek ducked the puch of a man who had acid dripping from his hands and Jarek came in close and cut the man from his groin to his chest. The man fell and the acid and blood splattered all over Jarek. Jarek was losing blood from a cut or two and now from the acid wounds.
Jarek turned to the last two and growled. They were scared and he could tell. He loved the smell of their fear and he longed to make them even more scared. He walked towards the first one and the man shot a ball of fire at Jarek who didn't even try to dodge. The ball of fire hit him in the chest and burned his skin. Jarek looked at the man and decided that he would look nice as a three piece puzzle. Jarek used his power and shaped the light into a band. Jarek then created another band and they were both around the man. Jarek then closed the bands on the man and he fell into three pieces just like Jarek had pictured it.
The last man turned to run but Jarek wouldn't have that. He used his power and created a invisible bowl around the man's head. The bowl was air tight and Jarek knew that the man would die for lack of air. Jarek had lost it completely at that moment. He was the killing machine that he hoped that he would never truly become. There were two of him in his head. The one controlling his body at the moment and the Jarek that loved his sister and the girls. The Jarek that Kitty loved was trying to get his body back when a voice spoke up.
"Very good Jarek. I am glad to see that you have become so deadly," the voice hissed from the darkness.
Jarek whipped towards the voice and saw two pinpricks of red light that were eyes. Jarek also saw the girls who had been singing run over to where Logan was and kneel down next to him. They were terrified but Jarek didn't really care about that. He had one last man to kill and he would.
"Jarek I am your creator and you will not be able to beat me. I am here to kill you and your friends so why not just die without a fight," Sinister said laughing.
Jarek charged Sinister and was blasted by a bolt of energy for his troubles. Jarek knew at that moment that he wouldn't be able to get close so he would have to use something else in order to kill Sinister.
"You are dead Sinister. You have hurt my family and that is unforgivable," Jarek said coldly as he charged again not caring if he was hit. Jarek was slammed back against a wall by the force of the power used against him. Jarek slowly got to his feet and stepped into a shadow and reappeared behind Sinister.
Jarek formed his blades of light and cut Sinister in the back before Sinister had a chance to get completely out of the way. The cut foamed and didn't heal. Sinister couldn't believe it and Jarek smiled at him.
"As I said you are going to die," Jarek then charged and was hit with the energy bolt again but it was weaker this time. It did stop Jarek though who was bleeding everywhere.
Sinister started to move over towards where Logan was sitting watching over the rest of the group. Jarek let out a yell that would have froze Sinister's had he had real blood. Jarek unleashed his power in a way that he had never done it before. A wave of pure white light flowed from him. Where it hit things those things were disintegrated. The light washed over Sinister and he disappeared with a yell and a curse for Jarek.
"I can't be killed so easily Jarek. One day I will find you and I will kill you," Sinister's voice said.
Jarek walked over to where Logan was and he said, "Watch over them Logan. I won't be here for them anymore. I am a danger to everyone around me and so I must leave."
"You have my word Jarek that I will watch over them," Logan said as Jarek turned his back on his friends and grew white wings of light. Jarek then flew off and left his friend Logan to care for his sister and his love Kitty. As Jarek flew away tears fell to the ground and where they hit the plants grew better.