Of Sirens and Diamonds Part 3

This is not written by Catgirl Ishida it was written by I, the Silent Magician. it is in her column only because #1 I messed up my password, and, #2, it has her charahters in it. Disclaimer:I do not own any x-men characters. Nor do I own Port, Bubbles, Lupe, Siren, Shadow.I do own Diamond Aiyiki (157a),

*I stepped off the plane. `Who cared if there was some great school here for types like me? Japan was better.They probably just wanted to get rid of me...so what if I ruined a few walls...and scared a few people... that doesn't mean I deserve to get shipped to stupid America...the people looked mean... not as mean as those faces after the Incident but...`

"HEY! Watch where you're going b****!" `Aghh...stupid me...bumped into someone again`

"ah..soree..." `ughh! Such a sickening language... he could obviously tell I was a foreigner and looked like he hated me even more now... well... at least now I had an excuse not to talk. it would only work against me.and I thought I spoke English well! ha!`

I made my way to one of those conveyor belt thingys.

""stupid machine!"" `I recognized the voice……that guy…… maybe it was just him. Maybe the rest were nice. Maybe he was just some country drunk. I hoped so. But I still wasn''t talkin''.`

I saw my bag. it was by that guy. `should I go get it? should I wait till it comes around again? that guy is pretty scary.`

but before I could weigh my options, this lady with glasses and a cage grabs my bag! `But is it my bag? of course it''s my bag! it has that cute kitty sticker on it!` And I could even see the sticker that said ""Diamond"" in big red letters.I began to yell at her, but I stopped short. no talking rule. I remembered what happened last time. Besides this chick had a scowl on her face much deeper than the ocean, and much much deeper than that drunk guys''. I saw a bag that looked like mine and grabbed it……it was the lady''s.

So I just followed her. I wasn''t meaning any harm. I just thought I''d catch up to her and trade. Seems that would be easy right? Ha! Yeah. Yeah Right.

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#I was surprised. `No mutants. No creepy government guys. Not that I couldn''t deal with the mutant''s powers if she got close enough. then when they are shocked…… wha! hiya!! kung foo fighting.` I snapped out of it. `gotta pay attention. gotta be alert.` caught off guard I''d be dead. `Wait! someone behind me, better not look. I hoped 157a was scanning their mind…… maybe he would tell me if they were a threat.` But I knew he couldn''t be. he had to have eye contact. I would also have to stay still. I stopped and turned the cage around. `I hope he got the hint.''

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* what was that in the cage? I could feel it eyes. They were burning into my brain……it was prying, ripping, searching. But no, not ripping, prying, more like it was wiggling it''s toes into my brain, reading, reading my memories my thoughts. I relived them as it read. I liked it and I couldn''t move, for fear it would go. For it was like floating in warm apple cider……slow…… everything dusty but clean as they could ever be……twisting, but in a good way, blinding, but so dim, like jumping into ice water and sitting by a warm fire, all mixed and intertwined like a woven tapestry of light, and thought, and feeling. it felt like I could stay forever and I had already been a thousand years. But then came pain. No longer wiggling toes but what it first was, claws ripping and tearing away at my brain. I was on the ground. As slow as the good memorys were was how fast the bad came, now I was twisted in pain, in boiling cider, every thing so clean it just became a cold void. A new deep burning blindness of both light and dark, the ice water now a stabbing pain and the fireplace was just as cold. I closed my eyes and cried out. Then it was over. But the pain did not leave. The claws did but the pain did not. It was a headache like none ever. No...heartache. a sad depression closed in, a dank fog of a dark green. it pressed on all sides...I couldn''t breathe. I did not open my mouth to breathe, I opened my eyes, I don''t know why but it worked. I could breathe. But then my eyes started to move by themselves. Toward the cage. I closed my eyes thinking that it could not reach me then, but I couldn't breathe. I had to look. So I looked. I felt one toe but no more. The toe said...wait. It was not the toe but the thing speaking without sound or words but with feeling. It was sorry. It was afraid I would hurt them. it wanted to show why it was scared. it asked if it could show me. But the memory I felt was not just the things memory, but the womans memory, as well as a mans.

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Something must be going wrong...she actually looked happy Usually having your memory raided like that and reliving all your past pains left you in pain for hours. Sometimes even days, or weeks. Unless...

"157a! You didn't clear the pain did you?!"

she was having breathing problems...and she's young

"So what if she's young, you're the most important scientific advance in ages!"

you shouldn't talk so loud, she's conscious, and besides she might recognize your voice

"What?"

You never told me you had a family.

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I thought I recognized that voice... and placed it. Having my memory read left all the memories fresh...especially the one of my mother leaving. We seemed to realize at the same who the other was.

She ran.

Just like before...



Authors Note: Hi! This is Catgirl!! I would just like to say we are writing chapter....ummmm Four right now so look for it. Kay? I'm taking the silence as a yes. Well the Silent *cough stupid cough* Magician wrote this one but I edited and we'll write the next one together probably.

Thanks for Reading! :)