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A/N: It is 21:21 here in Croatia right now. I am so tired but I just can t help myself.
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Never felt so low
Chapter nine-Lesson to learn
By The Opal Jade
Venus was high up and about. Shining like the star that she was. Blue and white light.
Clouds were passing the night skies. So peacefull. Like travelers trough time. Gliding across the weawed cloth of the universe.
-They are beautiful. You re so right.
Chamber came to me. We comunicated telepaticly offcourse. Chamber can not comunicate in any other way.
-Has anyone ever told you not to sneak up on people like that. Someone who can not smell you in a mile away could get pretty shaken up.
-So you can smell me?
-Aha.
-How do I smell?
With this he caught me completley off guard. I did not expect it.
But just because of that I did not want to lie to him.
-You smell like a dead corpse.
-Yeah. I kinda already knew that.
He slowly moved away but I did not want to let him of the hook so easly.
-What did you want to know when you asked me that?
-I wanted to know how I smell.
-You already knew that. You wanted to know something else. You wanted for someone to tell you that. That you are just like dead.
I suddenly shut up. I am here way in over my head. I am too hard on the poor guy.
He just walked away.
Hell! I wish he atleast punched me or something.
Then I could not fell so guilty. I did not want to lie and he asked for it. Since no one else wants to tell him. He just needs to hear it.
From someone alive.
We went to our next challenge.
I expected something larger or atleast scarier.
All I have seen was just an old house…and….yeah. a old stupid house. Jubilee was just…oh.
Maybe I am jelaous on her. She is thirteen and…..she gets to live her god damn life.
I did not have that chance. By this time I was excuse me, being too buisy by getting raped and torchured. I had to grow up swiftly. So that I could survive. And finnaly be free.
That is why Jeans little trips in my mind were so anoing. She had no right to do that. But she thought that it was nessecary. It is alright. I just close all the doors that need to be closed.
I think that she thinks that it is a reflecs or something.
Jubilee went to ring the doorbell and sticked her tounge out to the creppy old lady that opened the door.
How could we let her do this?
It was too dangerous for mutants to do. Especially silly stupid ones like Jubilee.
It is one thing to get in a bar fight where you see exactly who you are dealing with. Here you can rely only at your guts. You can never know who is behind the door.
My gut is telling me right now that there is something dangerous inside. But i will not say a word. Jubilee has a lesson to learn.
The woman screams when she looks at the rest of us. it took her one good look at Gambit to know that we were mutants.
She pressed a button and something metalic behind here comes out of the house.
A robot.
I saw one of them in England. But I saw them confiscated and destroyed. This one was bought on the black market who knows where. Someone must really love their granny.
And that is Halloween for you.
Yey Halloween.
Bobby and Gambit (Bobby dressed as a white bunny and Gambit as a punker) took Jubilee out of there and we all started runing.
We somehow managed to get to the forest. It was dark. We split ourselves up. But I knew where exactly anybody was.
That thing was fast even here. I could hear the old hag dialing the numbers and calling the police to come nad pick up «a couple of filthy mutants».
The robot had flashlights and lasers. It is a more sofisticated model than the one I saw in England. Wonder how is she gonna explain it to the police.
Chamber stood in front of it defending Kitty, Rogue and Bobby. He made such a blast that he knocked down couple of trees that almost landed on me.
But the robot just picked himself up.
He knocked Jubilee out. She tried to help Chamber. Stupid girl. Gambit picked her up and almost got sliced when the thing took some blades out.
This was the tima for me to step in.
I got my baby out. The purple sword, and evaded his sensors. He had a number of glitches.
Kitty tried to phase trough him. She got cut.
I came. And sliced the blades. But I was getting too tired. He was built of adamantium. I used up a lot of my strenght. I could not keep the sword up in time and space. I jumped at the side.
Now Gambit, Bobby, John and Chamber all tried to take it at the same time.
Jubilee joined. Kitty and Rogue could do nogthing but watch.
They were all struck down. One by one.
I remember the crypt. How they all died one by one. And I could do nogthing but just helplessly watch and try to stay alive at their expence. No. Not anymore.
I took all that was in me. Chamber stood up to put a last line of defence. I joined him.
The thing jumped at us. he would have surely done something to Chamber who was not as mobile as he was. This battle was draining him of the only thing that he had in his body. Energy.
I used my fighting skills. It is a good thing that Psylock trained me and Dawn with iron dumies. But not with adamantium doe.
I felt the presure on my bones as I kept on hiting with my bare flesh. I am having the feeling that I get hurt more than it does.
But I was a good enough distraction while Rogue managed to drain a unconcious Bobby. She iced the thing and before it could brake loose again I kicked his ass five meters high.
Then John burned him. The circuits inside him melted.
In cases like these he was programed to go staright home. He did that. Wonder what is he going to do to the old hag. Maybe he mistakes her for a mutant. That would be fun.
Everybody were hurt. And it was too far a walk to home.
So we just quietly picked ourselfes up and headed deeper into the forest. After half an hour we found a cave. We layed there on the floor, one a top the other.
I layed back on Chamber, I could fit right in that hole in his chest. It was coazy. On my stomach there was Bobby, laying unconcious. Rogue was crying.
She had to do what she had done. That robot was more dangerous than the copies of the sentinels that we fight in the simulations.
After a while we could hear nogthing more than crickets. Rogue and Kitty fell asleep besides Bobby.
Rogue put a piece of cloth on her face. The poor girl. Gambit was right behind them. Jubilee next to Chamber. We were a wreck.
I have been saying it too many times.
I could not sleep. Then Chamber told me that he does not need to sleep anyway.
So I did fell asleep. Not on but inside his chest. Weird.
And Rogue had quiet sobs coming out of her. Kitty lost all her stakes.
All I wanted to do is sleep.