Chapter Two

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YANG: This chapter is totally Yin's work, u lucky u. Enjoy!

YIN: (blush) This part is purely Kevin.

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Kevin backed into an alley. He could hear the shouts from behind him and the fear gripped at his heart, his throat started to constrict as he felt the panic take hold. He had to get out of here. He stumbled and looked up to see that he was in a dead end. He gaped at it; this was not good. He then noticed that someone else was there with him. She was tall with red-orange hair and was dressed in white. She had her back to Kevin, so when she whipped round and he saw her skin was blue, he fell over in shock.

She must have heard the people chasing him 'cause the first thing she said was, "You fool! You've lead them straight to me."

How Kevin was supposed to know she was here he didn't know, but he wasn't about to ask her that question. Besides, judging by what she did next it didn't matter if they found her as she could always escape. She transformed herself into a small black cat. There had never been a moment when Kevin had been gladder of his mutant ability. He just hoped that he would still be able to merge with her while she was in a cat form; he'd never tried merging with a shape-shifter before.

So, he reached out and touched her. Thankfully the merger worked and they became one. As soon as Kevin reached her mind he could hear her mentally screaming at him to get out. He almost laughed at her knowing that there was no way for her to force him out. Instead, Kevin tried to calm her down. He could tell by her accent when she spoke that she was not native to Britain, so chances were she had no idea of what route to take in order to escape the vigilantes.

No matter how much Kevin tried to reason with her, he couldn't get her to listen, so in the end he was forced to take control and gently slipped to the front of her mind, taking control of her motor skills but leaving the rest in her control. The vigilantes never noticed the small black cat weaving past them, out of the alley and down onto the main road. He hung around for a few hours waiting for the chaos to die down. As Kevin inside Mystique wandered the streets, they passed a television store. All the TV's were tuned to the same channel and a number of people were watching them. They showed the news. It spoke of the mutant meeting earlier today, only it spoke of it as if the mutants had been planning to destroy the human race, and spoke of the cowards who had bust in on the meeting brandishing guns as if they were heroes. Then it showed a picture of the mutant's who had been caught, and there she was. Medusa.

Kevin couldn't take this, not now, not with this strange person in his mind. He needed to get home and clear his mind, understand what was happening. Then he would hunt down those worthless humans and rip them to pieces. He knew that there was a bridge a few roads down that went over the Thames, and he was certain that it would be safe enough there for the two to separate.

The first thing Kevin did once separated from her was dodge the blow he knew was coming, followed by running for the main street. Luckily, his mutation had no effect on his physical appearance so the vigilantes couldn't pick him out by his looks… but a crazy blue lady attacking an innocent boy? They would pounce on her. Unfortunately, she grabbed him before he could reach the edge of the bridge and dragged him back into the darkness by the collar of his shirt.

"You have a lot of nerve boy." She growled.

Kevin's belly clenched in fear. He knew next to nothing about this lady, and what he did know wasn't exactly reassuring. He'd just wanted to get away in one piece, but now it would appear that he'd escaped the anti-mutants group for an even worse fate.

Mystique shook Kevin, and then turned the young mutant around so that he was facing her and looking her in the eye. As he stared back, she seemed to re-decide his fate of being skinned alive.

"You know, you could be of use. Your sister was captured in that raid, wasn't she?"

Kevin nodded slightly, an action that seemed to satisfy her. Letting go of him, she bent down so that they were eye-to-eye. "How would you like a chance to get her back, or at least get revenge?" She asked.

She had a sly look to her, as if she was trying to manipulate him to do as she wanted. She needn't have bothered for two reasons; first, Kevin almost always acted like that himself, so those tactics never worked on him and secondly he had already decided on that front.

His expression grew hard and he responded with a curt nod. It was a stupid question. Medusa was his only family.

If they did anything to her Kevin would kill them.

***

It was almost a week later and Kevin was seated in a cramped seat in the economy section waiting for his plane to take off. He glanced around as more people filled up the chairs around him. The one next to him was still empty at the moment, but he knew that someone would sit there within the next few minutes. He turned and looked out the window, attempting to squash the growing panic within him. He swallowed as he noticed someone out of the corner of his eye stuffing their bag into the shelf above him. He turned to get a look at the other person; he looked about twenty and appeared to have dirty blond hair, which wasn't cut into any particular style, colourless eyes and greyish skin. His clothes seemed just as drab, and he was wearing a grey T-shirt and black jeans that looked so washed out that they must have been years old. Of course, Kevin's perception could be slightly off considering that he was wearing thick dark glasses.

However, the guy didn't look like much of a threat. Kevin was still sane enough to know that not everybody wanted to lock him up and experiment on him to see whether he'd bleed if he was cut, stupid humans. The guy sat down next to him and shot Kevin a grin. He stared blankly back, not in the mood to converse with a human.

'I know I'm a human too, but I'm different, I'm more than they are. And that scares them, so they feel they have to suppress me, and others like me. Then there are those who feel that they must experiment on us, like we're less than what they are, like we have no feelings and they have the right to do that. I hate them.'

Kevin's head snapped round to look at the guy sitting next to him, who just asked him something. Kevin glared questioningly at him from behind his glasses. He didn't mean to glare at everyone but he couldn't help it. If it wasn't for them she would still be here, not locked up somewhere and maybe being experimented on. Fear gripped at his heart at that thought. He had to find a way to rescue her. Kevin gripped the seat arms until his knuckles turned white. He didn't really care though; his thoughts were more on his sister.

'It's only been slightly over a week since that mutant thing. She didn't even want to go. It was me who found the flyer shoved in a trashcan and thought it would be cool to meet others like us. She had told me before that we shouldn't get involved with other mutants. That there were wars going on, not just between humans and mutants, but the mutants themselves and it was safer for both of us to stay quiet. But no, I had to go on and on about how cool it would be, and in the end she gave in. It wasn't fair. She didn't even want to go, and she was the one they caught.

When, during the meeting, a group of humans broke in, starting to attack us, killing some and capturing others. Somewhere along the line, in the panic, we lost each other. I didn't wait for her to make sure she was ok. I just bolted, ran into the crazy blue lady, Mystique, and used her as a way to escape, so it wasn't till later that I found out what happened to her. They reported the mutants that had been captured, they didn't say anything about any of them being killed though. That was kept under wraps. They showed pictures of the mutants that had been captured, and there she was. Her red hair was a mess, and she looked like they had beaten her, and what was she doing? She was looking after a little girl who must have been separated from her parents. The little girl was obviously a mutant, she had blue hair and her skin had a slight greenish tinge to it. She only looked about five years old and was clinging to Medusa desperately in fear. When they tried to get a shot of the 'freaky' little girl she pushed the camera out of the way and told the photographer to leave the girl alone. For that she received a harsh thump round the back of the head. She didn't deserve that. It should be me not her.'

"Dude?" The guy next to Kevin asked, sensing that he had lost his attention. Kevin looked at him again.

"I asked if you were okay? You seem really tense man." He was American, with a fairly strong Californian beach bum accent. It's not quite the sort of voice he would have been expected to have. Kevin took his glasses off then pushed the curls that fell down to replace them out of his eyes. Without his glasses on, Kevin would be forgiven for thinking that the guy next to him was a completely different person from the one who was there only seconds before. His hair was more sandy than dirty blond and his skin more tanned. Even the clothes looked different, his jeans were in-fact white and his T-shirt, well it was grey but not the drab colourless grey that Kevin had originally thought.

"Yeah I'm cool" He replied. The guy seemed to know that he wasn't though. He was obviously the kind of guy who was infected with the happy bug, determined to make everyone within the surrounding area as happy as he was. Unfortunately it would appear that Kevin was his next victim. After a bit, he checked the handbook to see how long the journey was, and how much longer he had till he could escape him.

'Oh hell' Kevin thought upon seeing the flight length. 8 HOURS! They were only an hour in and Kevin was ready to jump out the plane, or maybe throw the other man out, since he still had to find a way to save his sister. Then the guy did the worst thing he could. He decided that he'd had enough of telling Kevin 'jokes' and 'funny stories'. They were going to get to know each other. 'Oh the sheer joy.'

"So what is your name any way? Mines Brandon Marks."

"Kevin" he muttered.

"So, why you heading for the Big Apple?" Didn't this guy understand the concept of minding your own business?

"Oh, you know, why does anyone go to New York?" he replied. Like hell Kevin was going to tell him the truth.

*New York was the quickest flight I could get to America. I'd got it last minute too. It was the only way I'd been able to afford to get there. Once in New York I intend to get a series of buses and trains to Bayville. I'm going there because I met some crazy blue lady who told me that there was group of mutants there called the Brotherhood who would be able to help me. Help me do what? Attack those nice little anti-mutant groups who keep the world safe from those horrible evil creatures. *

Crazy much?

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YIN: Did you like?

YANG: Next chapter…where is Meddie? Where does Kevin go? Diego meets the X-people and also has a dream. (theme to the Twilight Zone) Until next time…

YIN: On a side note, Brandon is just there for Kevin it mentally whinge about, he will have no further part in the fic.

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