A/N: I know, I know. It's been forever. But I haven't had any time to type! Been too busy with school and life. Ya'll probably know what I mean, tho' some of ya can replace school with work. Same difference right? Well this is gonna be the last chapter, and I predict it's gonna be a long sucker. Oh, sorry 'bout the br thing. My html editor wasn't workin' right. But I didn't get no flames for it (that I know of) so I'll leave it the way it is.
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Kiro explained to me a plan that appeared it would work in theory. But there was one major IF. What side was Kiro on? What if this was a trick? A trap? These thoughts were dispelled when an alarm sounded. Kiro's eyes widened, and we shared the same thought. They've got the others. Kiro began running, and I followed along in the shadows.
~Stay there in the shadows, brother! Don't let anyone see you!~ Kiro ordered. I had no intention of that happening.
I followed him down many corridors, and finally we arrived in a laboratory. I hadn't found the lab earlier; it must have been something else that the warrior entered. But worries about such things I didn't have time for. I saw in the lab many cylinders of glass, and in each one was a member of the X-Men or the Brotherhood. And there, across the room, I saw the machine that Todd had described. He had had a vision. A deadly one. But I wasn't going to let Magneto destroy them.
~What should I do Kiro?~ Kiro turned around, and saw his soulless eyes drill into mine. What I had thought was true. Kiro was a slave.
*My name is Sunfire. And you shall surrender to his Master, Magneto.* Kiro spoke aloud in Gaelic. His voice was listless and dead. Before I could move, shadow slaves came out of no where and grabbed me. I tried to fight, but I was still weak from the time spell. I was thrown into one of the glass cells.
I was trapped.
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"We've tripped an alarm!" Mystique said, her voice frightened.
"I can hear that!" Wolverine growled back. Jeriko had been right-- he should have stayed. ~It's no use arguing with myself. What's done is done. It's up to me and Mystique to save 'em.~ "C'mon, I got Jeriko's scent! Let's move!"
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I weakly tried to shimmer out of the cell, but could not. It was protected, but not by magick. By some sort of technology I had never seen before. Kiro stood in the middle of the room, a helpless slave. Of all times, it was then I noticed that he had the same outfit on, only it was a deep gold with blue markings. We were more than brothers, more than twins even. We were the day and the night, the light and the dark, the sun and the moon. We were the balance of everything in the universe. And we had been defeated.
The others were awake, but also weak. I did not see the Professor. He hadn't been in the cell with the others, nor had he been at the mansion. I was worried. Magneto had fallen deep into the abyss of madness; how far he would go to exact his revenge I did not know. And that was what scared me the most.
"Very good, Sunfire. You have been most useful to me. But your service is no longer needed." Magneto stepped out of the darkness, in full glory. He nodded to two warrior guards, the same ones who had grabbed me, and they steered Kiro to the machine. He had no control. He was killing himself.
*No! Kiro!* I shouted. *You are stronger than this! Fight!* He paused for a moment, but then continued on. *Kiro!*
Words started to flow from my mouth, foreign words. They were not Gaelic, nor English. I began chanting them over and over, my voice getting louder and stronger. My body was feeling weaker, though. But I did not stop. I kept chanting, my only thought to save Kiro and the others.
"What is this? A foolish attempt to save your brother?" Magneto mocked. I blocked him out. I heard a crumbling noise, and Wolverine appeared out of the fallen wall. Mystique came after him. I faltered, but only for a second. "Get the others!" I shouted before resuming my chant.
They didn't need to be told twice. Wolverine started knocking out the warrior guards that were flooding the area. Mystique ran over to a control panel and started pushing buttons. Nothing happened. Finally she just slammed her fists into it, causing it to spark and fry it circuits. The glass cylinders rose, and the others weakly stumbled out. I saw Kiro, still heading for the machine. Mystique was now fighting alongside Wolverine, and was oblivious to him. It was up to me.
My chant continued as I focused all my energy and power on Kiro. ~Fight, my brother! Fight!~ I commanded, never wavering. He stopped, and could see him fighting. He fell to his knees, his hands holding his head, trying to gain control over his mind. I ran over to him and grabbed his hands. He opened his eyes, and I could see his soul fighting. I kept chanting and slowly, among the battle being fought around us, he did too. The warriors were every wear, and we were losing. The others were trying to fight, but were to weak. Wolverine's body couldn't keep up with all his wounds. Mystique was bleeding from a dozen different places. And we kept chanting.
Then, something happened. It was as if Kiro and I were one. We knew the other's thoughts, feelings, and memories. It took me a minute to realize we were floating high in the air, above everyone. Then I felt a burden being lifted. Kiro was free. I was free. We floated there, facing each other. Then we began speaking together, like we knew what the other was saying before they said it.
*They are in trouble.* Kiro said.
*We must help them.* I responded, leaving no pause between his words and my own. We raised our hands, almost touching each other. Together we concentrated, and a light began to shine. A light of white and black, of brightness and darkness. We floated apart and the light grew bigger and bigger, until it covered everything. It was as dark as night and bright as day at the same time. Brighter and darker it grew, until even we had to shut our eyes. Then it was gone.
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The others were bathed in the light. There wounds were healed, their uniforms repaired, their strength returned. When the light vanished, all the warriors were gone. Just the others remained, standing there, confused. Kiro and I floated down, and landed on the floor in front of them.
"You shall find your Professor in the basement. He is unharmed." Kiro said.
"We have business to attend to." Since my mind was bonded with Kiro's, I could speak English clearly as he did. Silently we floated up to the ceiling, and the roof opened, letting us fly up into the sky. Magneto had ran. And we were going to find him.
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"Um, is anybody else confused, or is just me as usual?" Fred asked. The others looked at each other. "Must just be me."
"For once Fred, it's not just you." Pietro said. "Can somebody explain what happened?"
"Don't ya'll be a-lookin' at me." Logan said. "I ain't got no answers. Why don't ya ask Mys--" He started to say. But Mystique was gone. Vanished. "Now where did she get to?"
"Wer knows?" ('Who') Kurt said. He shrugged. "But vhat did happen?"
"Like, how about we, like, go get the Professor and maybe he can tell us." Kitty suggested. Logan just shrugged and headed back out the hole in the wall. The others followed.
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Magneto had holed himself up into a dark, barren room deep into the mountain. Using my power, I hid myself and Kiro in the shadows of the room. We whispered small spells, most harmless, but he did not know it. Paranoia and fear had set in. He was losing what sanity he had left.
"No, no! Leave me alone!" He shouted. We attacked out of the darkness. His screams echoed throughout the mountain.
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"Any idea, Charles?" Logan asked. They had found him in the basement, like Kiro said. Storm had also been locked down there; Magneto had been torturing her in a small confined room. She was barely brought back by the Professor.
"I am afraid not. What you have just described to me I have never heard of before. It is something well beyond my knowledge." The others sighed. The Brotherhood were there as well, admittedly to scared to go home. The warriors that had been locked up were also gone. It was as if they had never been there. "I doubt we will ever know the answers to the questions that plague us."
"Do not be so sure, Professor." Jeriko appeared before them in the hall, as well as Kiro beside him.
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We shimmered/orbed to the mansion. The others deserved to know the answers. We were prepared to answer them, leaving no details out. They would keep our secret of just who we were. I trusted them. And if I did, Kiro did as well.
"Jeriko! What happened? Where have you been?" Evan asked.
"I have been attending to business." I said.
"Wha business?" Asked Rogue.
"It is safe to say that you shall never worry about Magneto again." Kiro said. I saw a shadow pass over Pietro's face. Psycho or not, Magneto still had been his father. I walked over to him and handed him a locket. I found it around Magneto's neck. "I saved this for you."
"What is it, yo?" Todd asked. Pietro opened it and stood shocked. He started crying. Everyone was thrown by it. "Quix, man, what is it?"
"It's pictures of me and..... and..... a girl." He said. "A girl I remember...."
"She is your sister." Kiro said. "She is living in your homeland." (A/N: I forget where Pietro and Wanda are from.)
"Wanda...." He whispered.
"Whoa, back it up!" Scott said. "Homeland? Sister? How do you know? Forgive the French but what in the blue hell is going on?!" This startled everyone. Lance looked about ready to make a smart remark, but we cut him off.
"We are the Sun and the Moon, the Darkness and the Light; we are what we are, not gods nor humans. We are here and there, we are in full essence everywhere. We are the protectors of life and death, good and evil."
"Okaaay....." Jean said.
"There is always two protectors, twins, powerful from birth. We are not immortal, for we do die; but the moment we die we are reborn somewhere in the world. Not a second goes by that there is no protection given."
"Hea-vy." Lance said. The others agreed.
"We trust you to keep this to yourselves. And our faith will have to hold true; we shall not be here to stop you."
"You are not staying?" Storm, still shaken from her experiences in the basement, asked.
"There is much to protect." We said. "But before we go, there is one last thing." We faced each other, and let the ancient words come to us. Thrice spoken and thrice told the spell of protection as old as time itself was. "We must go now, but we will never forget you. Goodbye, protectors."
Together we faded from their view, and flew up among the stars. There we would weave our spells of protection, of light and dark, of life and death.
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"Do you feel that?" Kitty asked the others. Everyone nodded. It felt like new life had been breathed into all of them, and that the burden of Magneto had been disintegrated. They could actually enjoy life, free. They were free.
"Pietro, if you want any help in locating your sister, you know where to find us." Pietro still had tears in his eyes, and found he could not speak. He just nodded. The Professor addressed the rest of the Brotherhood. "If you want, you may stay for a while and rest before you go home."
"Oh yeah." Tabby said, who had been strangely silent during the whole excursion. She went into the living room and collapsed on the couch, falling asleep immediately. The rest of the Brotherhood scattered themselves among the living room, and Todd even curled up on the floor, perfectly content with where he was.
"Ya know there's bedrooms." Logan growled in vain. They were all fast asleep.
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A/N: Finished! Yes! ::jumps around crying for joy:: Whew, that took forever. The reason Tabby was silent was because I forgot all about her! Which I know ya'll don't mind. ::laughs evilly:: Die Tabby, Die! Hmm.... I think I better go now before I start acting like Magneto.
A/N2: Sorry, but no sequels. I'm worn out. If ya'll want to write a sequel using Jeriko and Kiro, go ahead, but plz no abuse. And as for my fic "Obsession", I might not update for a while. But trust me, I shall do so eventually. But no death threats, do ya hear?!
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Kiro explained to me a plan that appeared it would work in theory. But there was one major IF. What side was Kiro on? What if this was a trick? A trap? These thoughts were dispelled when an alarm sounded. Kiro's eyes widened, and we shared the same thought. They've got the others. Kiro began running, and I followed along in the shadows.
~Stay there in the shadows, brother! Don't let anyone see you!~ Kiro ordered. I had no intention of that happening.
I followed him down many corridors, and finally we arrived in a laboratory. I hadn't found the lab earlier; it must have been something else that the warrior entered. But worries about such things I didn't have time for. I saw in the lab many cylinders of glass, and in each one was a member of the X-Men or the Brotherhood. And there, across the room, I saw the machine that Todd had described. He had had a vision. A deadly one. But I wasn't going to let Magneto destroy them.
~What should I do Kiro?~ Kiro turned around, and saw his soulless eyes drill into mine. What I had thought was true. Kiro was a slave.
*My name is Sunfire. And you shall surrender to his Master, Magneto.* Kiro spoke aloud in Gaelic. His voice was listless and dead. Before I could move, shadow slaves came out of no where and grabbed me. I tried to fight, but I was still weak from the time spell. I was thrown into one of the glass cells.
I was trapped.
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"We've tripped an alarm!" Mystique said, her voice frightened.
"I can hear that!" Wolverine growled back. Jeriko had been right-- he should have stayed. ~It's no use arguing with myself. What's done is done. It's up to me and Mystique to save 'em.~ "C'mon, I got Jeriko's scent! Let's move!"
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I weakly tried to shimmer out of the cell, but could not. It was protected, but not by magick. By some sort of technology I had never seen before. Kiro stood in the middle of the room, a helpless slave. Of all times, it was then I noticed that he had the same outfit on, only it was a deep gold with blue markings. We were more than brothers, more than twins even. We were the day and the night, the light and the dark, the sun and the moon. We were the balance of everything in the universe. And we had been defeated.
The others were awake, but also weak. I did not see the Professor. He hadn't been in the cell with the others, nor had he been at the mansion. I was worried. Magneto had fallen deep into the abyss of madness; how far he would go to exact his revenge I did not know. And that was what scared me the most.
"Very good, Sunfire. You have been most useful to me. But your service is no longer needed." Magneto stepped out of the darkness, in full glory. He nodded to two warrior guards, the same ones who had grabbed me, and they steered Kiro to the machine. He had no control. He was killing himself.
*No! Kiro!* I shouted. *You are stronger than this! Fight!* He paused for a moment, but then continued on. *Kiro!*
Words started to flow from my mouth, foreign words. They were not Gaelic, nor English. I began chanting them over and over, my voice getting louder and stronger. My body was feeling weaker, though. But I did not stop. I kept chanting, my only thought to save Kiro and the others.
"What is this? A foolish attempt to save your brother?" Magneto mocked. I blocked him out. I heard a crumbling noise, and Wolverine appeared out of the fallen wall. Mystique came after him. I faltered, but only for a second. "Get the others!" I shouted before resuming my chant.
They didn't need to be told twice. Wolverine started knocking out the warrior guards that were flooding the area. Mystique ran over to a control panel and started pushing buttons. Nothing happened. Finally she just slammed her fists into it, causing it to spark and fry it circuits. The glass cylinders rose, and the others weakly stumbled out. I saw Kiro, still heading for the machine. Mystique was now fighting alongside Wolverine, and was oblivious to him. It was up to me.
My chant continued as I focused all my energy and power on Kiro. ~Fight, my brother! Fight!~ I commanded, never wavering. He stopped, and could see him fighting. He fell to his knees, his hands holding his head, trying to gain control over his mind. I ran over to him and grabbed his hands. He opened his eyes, and I could see his soul fighting. I kept chanting and slowly, among the battle being fought around us, he did too. The warriors were every wear, and we were losing. The others were trying to fight, but were to weak. Wolverine's body couldn't keep up with all his wounds. Mystique was bleeding from a dozen different places. And we kept chanting.
Then, something happened. It was as if Kiro and I were one. We knew the other's thoughts, feelings, and memories. It took me a minute to realize we were floating high in the air, above everyone. Then I felt a burden being lifted. Kiro was free. I was free. We floated there, facing each other. Then we began speaking together, like we knew what the other was saying before they said it.
*They are in trouble.* Kiro said.
*We must help them.* I responded, leaving no pause between his words and my own. We raised our hands, almost touching each other. Together we concentrated, and a light began to shine. A light of white and black, of brightness and darkness. We floated apart and the light grew bigger and bigger, until it covered everything. It was as dark as night and bright as day at the same time. Brighter and darker it grew, until even we had to shut our eyes. Then it was gone.
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The others were bathed in the light. There wounds were healed, their uniforms repaired, their strength returned. When the light vanished, all the warriors were gone. Just the others remained, standing there, confused. Kiro and I floated down, and landed on the floor in front of them.
"You shall find your Professor in the basement. He is unharmed." Kiro said.
"We have business to attend to." Since my mind was bonded with Kiro's, I could speak English clearly as he did. Silently we floated up to the ceiling, and the roof opened, letting us fly up into the sky. Magneto had ran. And we were going to find him.
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"Um, is anybody else confused, or is just me as usual?" Fred asked. The others looked at each other. "Must just be me."
"For once Fred, it's not just you." Pietro said. "Can somebody explain what happened?"
"Don't ya'll be a-lookin' at me." Logan said. "I ain't got no answers. Why don't ya ask Mys--" He started to say. But Mystique was gone. Vanished. "Now where did she get to?"
"Wer knows?" ('Who') Kurt said. He shrugged. "But vhat did happen?"
"Like, how about we, like, go get the Professor and maybe he can tell us." Kitty suggested. Logan just shrugged and headed back out the hole in the wall. The others followed.
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Magneto had holed himself up into a dark, barren room deep into the mountain. Using my power, I hid myself and Kiro in the shadows of the room. We whispered small spells, most harmless, but he did not know it. Paranoia and fear had set in. He was losing what sanity he had left.
"No, no! Leave me alone!" He shouted. We attacked out of the darkness. His screams echoed throughout the mountain.
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"Any idea, Charles?" Logan asked. They had found him in the basement, like Kiro said. Storm had also been locked down there; Magneto had been torturing her in a small confined room. She was barely brought back by the Professor.
"I am afraid not. What you have just described to me I have never heard of before. It is something well beyond my knowledge." The others sighed. The Brotherhood were there as well, admittedly to scared to go home. The warriors that had been locked up were also gone. It was as if they had never been there. "I doubt we will ever know the answers to the questions that plague us."
"Do not be so sure, Professor." Jeriko appeared before them in the hall, as well as Kiro beside him.
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We shimmered/orbed to the mansion. The others deserved to know the answers. We were prepared to answer them, leaving no details out. They would keep our secret of just who we were. I trusted them. And if I did, Kiro did as well.
"Jeriko! What happened? Where have you been?" Evan asked.
"I have been attending to business." I said.
"Wha business?" Asked Rogue.
"It is safe to say that you shall never worry about Magneto again." Kiro said. I saw a shadow pass over Pietro's face. Psycho or not, Magneto still had been his father. I walked over to him and handed him a locket. I found it around Magneto's neck. "I saved this for you."
"What is it, yo?" Todd asked. Pietro opened it and stood shocked. He started crying. Everyone was thrown by it. "Quix, man, what is it?"
"It's pictures of me and..... and..... a girl." He said. "A girl I remember...."
"She is your sister." Kiro said. "She is living in your homeland." (A/N: I forget where Pietro and Wanda are from.)
"Wanda...." He whispered.
"Whoa, back it up!" Scott said. "Homeland? Sister? How do you know? Forgive the French but what in the blue hell is going on?!" This startled everyone. Lance looked about ready to make a smart remark, but we cut him off.
"We are the Sun and the Moon, the Darkness and the Light; we are what we are, not gods nor humans. We are here and there, we are in full essence everywhere. We are the protectors of life and death, good and evil."
"Okaaay....." Jean said.
"There is always two protectors, twins, powerful from birth. We are not immortal, for we do die; but the moment we die we are reborn somewhere in the world. Not a second goes by that there is no protection given."
"Hea-vy." Lance said. The others agreed.
"We trust you to keep this to yourselves. And our faith will have to hold true; we shall not be here to stop you."
"You are not staying?" Storm, still shaken from her experiences in the basement, asked.
"There is much to protect." We said. "But before we go, there is one last thing." We faced each other, and let the ancient words come to us. Thrice spoken and thrice told the spell of protection as old as time itself was. "We must go now, but we will never forget you. Goodbye, protectors."
Together we faded from their view, and flew up among the stars. There we would weave our spells of protection, of light and dark, of life and death.
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"Do you feel that?" Kitty asked the others. Everyone nodded. It felt like new life had been breathed into all of them, and that the burden of Magneto had been disintegrated. They could actually enjoy life, free. They were free.
"Pietro, if you want any help in locating your sister, you know where to find us." Pietro still had tears in his eyes, and found he could not speak. He just nodded. The Professor addressed the rest of the Brotherhood. "If you want, you may stay for a while and rest before you go home."
"Oh yeah." Tabby said, who had been strangely silent during the whole excursion. She went into the living room and collapsed on the couch, falling asleep immediately. The rest of the Brotherhood scattered themselves among the living room, and Todd even curled up on the floor, perfectly content with where he was.
"Ya know there's bedrooms." Logan growled in vain. They were all fast asleep.
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A/N: Finished! Yes! ::jumps around crying for joy:: Whew, that took forever. The reason Tabby was silent was because I forgot all about her! Which I know ya'll don't mind. ::laughs evilly:: Die Tabby, Die! Hmm.... I think I better go now before I start acting like Magneto.
A/N2: Sorry, but no sequels. I'm worn out. If ya'll want to write a sequel using Jeriko and Kiro, go ahead, but plz no abuse. And as for my fic "Obsession", I might not update for a while. But trust me, I shall do so eventually. But no death threats, do ya hear?!
