Hey every1!! Again, I'd like to thank all who R/R, I REALLY appreciate it!! It's my first fic ever (did I mention that?) and the support has been great. I wanna clarify though =), Kurt may not SEEM angsty about Mystique, but it will come. I wrote a summery b4 I actually wrote the story. I am gonna step up the whole Mystique thing soon though so please KEEP READING =)
Disclaimer: not mine yada yada, blah blah I'm not making any money, so there would really be no point in suing.
"Yo, man, can you believe that dude?" Evan cried as he watched a car that had just made a dangerous U-turn in front of them peel off in the opposite direction. "Idiot, what the hell was he thinking?!"
"It's not that big a deal Spike, chill." Kitty tried to calm him.
"No, he cut right out in front of us, he coulda killed us!" As he said this, a spike was growing from the hand that was pointed towards the offending car in anger.
"Evan, no!" Scott checked Evan before he could send the spike sailing.
"I was only gonna do the tires, it would keep him from killing somebody," was his reply.
"No, you know we don't do that." Scott's voice was final. Evan's spike slowly retracted as he glared at Scott..
"So, whatch y'all doin' tonight?" Rouge drawled, in an attempt to ease the forming tension and change the subject.
"I guess that depends on what the Professor wants us to do," was Jean's reply.
As they pulled up to the Institute, they were met by Storm. She was anxiously awaiting their arrival, not normal behavior. They jumped out of the car hurried over to her.
"Hey, what's up? Is Kurt okay?" Kitty asked quickly.
"He is better than he was, but that is not what I needed to talk to you about. The Professor has detected a mutant. Old, powerful…we need to go search at once." Ororo's voice was urgent.
"But what about Kurt? He can't come, can he?" Rogue asked.
"No, but the Professor will be here. Kurt will be fine. Now, go get ready, hurry."
A few minutes later, the team, minus Kurt and Logan, for the latter was nowhere to be found, were aboard the jet.
"Where exactly are we going?" Scott asked as he settled himself into the pilot's seat.
"The forest, on the edge of town, just land where I tell you," was Storm's reply.
They reached a clear field in the middle of the forest when Storm told them to land.
When everyone was outside, Storm issued instructions. "We will split up into groups, cover more ground. Stay with your partners and if you run into trouble or find the mutant, send some sort of signal. It is now 5:00. In the unfortunate event that none of our efforts yield success, we will meet back here at 8:00. Jean, you search with Cyclops, Shadowcat, you and Spike, Rogue, you and I shall be a team. Now go."
Three hours later, nothing, not so much as a trace of this new mutant was found. The teams met up only to talk about their shortcomings.
Storm led the discussion "Does anyone have any information they want to disclose?"
Kitty answered, "Yes, well more of a request, please don't EVER pair me up with Spike EVER again. And who gave him access to the food coloring? I sure didn't and now LOOK at me!" She pulled the hair that was covering the side of her face away and revealed a dark red splotch. "I spent, like, a day at this river thing trying to scrub it out! I'm gonna kill you!" She made a grab at Spike, whom she saw for the first time since she started her ranting for he had conveniently "lost" something behind a patch of bushes and had only now "found" it.
"Anyone have anything to tell us about the mutant?" Storm asked as she ignored Shadowcat."
"Nope"
"Naw"
"Nu-uh"
"No"
"I imagine that there is nothing our efforts can achieve now, the sun is down, so we might as wel-" She was interrupted by a scream coming from inside the forest. "Let's go!"
"No, NO get away from me!!!" He screamed causing the figure in the shadows not to pause, but to increase the speed of its steady pursuit. He had no clue who, or what, was chasing him, but he had a paralyzing fear of being caught. After what seemed to be hours, but could not have been more than minutes, the boy slowed his frantic pace. He was so tired and he had lost the feeling in his legs. He stumbled over a root and fell into a patch of thorn bushes. He pulled himself up and spat the blood from the gash his fangs had caused on the inside of his mouth. He groaned and rolled over only to be greeted by the towering figure of the thing that had been chasing him. With one slash, it ripped open his chest and raised its arm to deliver the final blow, only to be checked by a voice. He felt his blood draining from his body as he turned his head towards the voice that left him to suffer a drawn out death. The moonlight reflected off her red hair as she stepped from the shadows. She sauntered over to him, her blue body looked, to him, almost as if it was floating, but everything looked that way. She knelt down next to him, brushed the hair that was plastered to his face away and kissed his forehead.
"Goodnight my son," she said, her voice lacking the tenderness of someone from whom one would normally hear such a comment. She stood up, deliberately dusted off her hands and walked back to the edge of the shadows were she was met by an enormous figure. The last thing the boy remembered was the glint of claws and growl of anticipation before all went dark…
Kurt woke up, sweaty and confused. What had happened? The memories came flooding back to him. His pulse quicken, breathing sped up, as he looked frantically in the darkness for the danger that had just plagued him. It took a few minutes for him to convince himself that it was only a dream, nothing more.
"Mein head," he murmured as he reached for the Tylenol Ororo had left on his nightstand, (A/N No, she was not trying to kill Kurt w/ aspirin (lol) I was gonna put Tylenol, but it was late and my brain wasn't working so I couldn't remember how to spell it so…aspirin =) )
He pulled himself out of bed, his aching muscles protesting all the way. He glanced at his clock. "8:00? Itz zat late?" He walked out of his room and down the vacant hall. "Vere is everyone?" He started walking toward the Professor's room, but started running when he heard a crash.
"Wha-what are you doing? Stop. Stop!!" The Professor screamed. Another crash.
"Professor!" Kurt bamfed into the Professor's room. Instead of being greeted by the sight of Professor Xavier, he was greeted by and empty wheelchair and an enormous hole in the wall leading to the outside through which something must have entered. Kurt tried to move from his spot leaning against the wall to look through the opening, but he was too weak. Using his power had drained what little energy he had. Never the less, Kurt pushed himself to hurry to the opening. "Professor" was the word on his lips right before he passed out.
