Xmen Evolution: Enter Selaeste.
Chapter 1: Leaving the past.
I get off the bus and set my luggage down, thinking to myself, 'This looks like the my new home.' Picking up my rucksack and handbag I begin to walk towards an abandoned part of town. Takes me not long, a few hours by foot, I could have taken a bus but frankly, I don't have the money waste and I've got to eat. I find a dark alley way that hasn't been used in ages, there is the body of an abandoned car by the left wall, some rubbish bins a few paces away and a broken line waving in the wind hanging onto a rusted gutter. Opening my rucksack, I get out a rope and tarpaulin and try to patch up the car as best I can. The doors still work and can lock from the inside. The driver's seat is missing, but the back seat looks comfy and dry, I go back to my rucksack and grab a sheet, pillow and sleeping bag. When I duck out of the car, I'm met by two tall boys, one with dark hair and the other with white.
"What are you doing, only scum lives in a place like this! The white haired one speaks to me.
"Sometimes, you just make do with what you can get, now beat it!" I reply back.
"Nope, not a valid response, Avalanche sort her out!" He points at me.
"Time to rock, girly!" Avalanche laughs and stamps his foot on the ground, making the buildings vibrate and crumble around me.
I freak out, not knowing what to do I drop to my knees and it happens. My skin turns to a silvery metallic hue and my hands and feet melt and harden to the ground. I feel solid and I remain attached until the tremor ceases. My metal skin cracks and sheds like dried paint and get up to face them both.
"She's a mutant, Quicksilver, you see that!" Avalanche shocked takes a step back.
"Magneto will have something to say about this." He replies back to Avalanche and turns to me. "You should look at yourself in the mirror, freak!"
They disappear around the corner and pull away in their jeep, I'm confused so I take a compact out of my handbag and look my complexion. My skin is pink and raw like I've been sunburnt and my hair, its changed from the rich brown colour it was before, to a pale bleached blonde colour.
A memory flashes back in my mind from a time long forgotten. I see faceless doctors injecting me with substances and monitoring strange machines around me. A tiny hand reaches out to a window above me and more doctors begin to strap me down and I feel pain as electric shocks are applied to my limbs and torso. I scream out in pain, then I snap back to reality. I look at my face again, so hot and sore. I rummage through the rucksack for some relief, all I find is 10 cents and a bar of gum. I add the coin to my purse and head over to the nearest drugstore.
"Hi, can I help you?" Comes a voice from the side counter. A man pops his head up and his face changes expression from happy to pity and curious. "Can I offer you anything for...um...that, it looks quite sore."
"It is, I was wondering if you've got some cheap lotion or something. Its just a bit of sunburn."
"Ah yeah, sure." He ducks back down under his counter and returns with a plastic bottle filled with a green gel. "That'll be $6.85, thank you."
I look in my purse at the meagre amount of change I have, then look pleadingly at the man. "Have you got it in a smaller bottle?"
I must have looked a real poor case, wearing a brown jacket with frayed stitching and holes in both legs of my jeans, the sandals on my feet just held together with some nifty sewing.
He turns back around and then shows me a miniscule bottle with the same green gel in it. "This is $2.45?"
"I'll take it, thanks." I lay the change on the counter and he places the bottle in my hand and smiles. I leave and stand outside to look at the bottle. There's something wrapped around it, its a shopping voucher for the value of $10!
I smile back at the clerk through the window and head for the local Supermarket.
I'm minding my own business walking on the pavement when I hear a car screeching it's brakes and swerving right for me. I jump out of the way and land in some bushes. I hear the tyres squeal on the pavement and finally stop. There is some yelling and two car doors open, a person jogs over and stands near me.
"Ah, hello?" A young voice says with a slight accent.
I turn over and check myself out, my skin has turned back to it's silvery surface!
"Vhao! Are you O.K.?" A kid stands over me and lends me a hand. "I'm Kurt, you must be a mutant?"
"A what!?!!" I squint trying to focus on his face. I tense up and my surface flakes off again, it really hurts this time and I have bleeding scratches on my palms. "What did you call me?"
"A mutant, you knov, someone vith povers." He looks at my hand before helping me up. "Logan, have ve got anee anteeceptec lotion?"
Another guy, much older, walks over and looks at me. He glances at my face and sniffs, then looks at Kurt and back to me.
"You better come with us." Logan says and takes my arm but a flinch and pull back.
"No, I'll be fine, thanks."
"You're coming with us, I don't want to have to hurt you." Logan growls at me and reaches for my arm but I turn and run.
I continue to run but I hear in the distance Logan saying, "Stay here, I'll go get her, and don't touch the car!"
I'm running but he's catching up to me, so I stop and hold myself protectively. I think intensely and another attack happens. A high pitched screeching sound emits from somewhere and Logan drops to the ground covering his ears and groaning in pain, so is Kurt in the distance. I relax and the sound fades off, I feel incredibly weak and drop to my hands and knees grasping the ground to keep balance. Looking up, Logan is coming for me and looks very angry so I get up and look around for somewhere to hide.
"Just stop! Don't run!!" He yells as he gains on me and I'm gazing over to a road barrier.
I make for the barrier and gaze over, its a rocky cliff with a bush here and there, the bottom is a mass of gravel and sand. I think to myself, 'Its either that or the crazed maniac chasing me." I change into my metallic skin and brace myself, I jump over skidding and tumbling down the rocky hill rebounding off tree stumps and boulders like a pinball.
Finally reaching the bottom, I look up and see Logan glaring down at me, I've tumbled down quite a hill!
My skin is scratched and chipped, changing back the scratches appear as giant grazes and deep bruises, forgetting my palms are still bleeding.
A puff of smoke and a blue, furry guy appears wearing Kurt's clothes. "We're all mutants, don't be scared. Come vith us, ve can help you." He says and touches my shoulder, then we're transported back to the top of the hill where Logan was looking down, he gives me a grimace.
"Do we have to restrain her?" He asks Kurt, who is holding my arm. He shakes his head and leads me to the car.
Logan is occupied driving, so Kurt asks, "By the vay, vhat vas your name?"
"Selaeste. Just call me Sally." I smile back, trying to pay no attention to the current state of pain I was in.
"Vell, velcome to the insteetute of Professor Xavier." He points out a large gate the car has pulled up to, beyond that is a huge mansion.
"Ah, why have you brought me here?"
To be continued...
A.T.- I hope you all enjoyed that, I don't know how these thing are supposed to be written but I don't care, go review this, or not!
Chapter 1: Leaving the past.
I get off the bus and set my luggage down, thinking to myself, 'This looks like the my new home.' Picking up my rucksack and handbag I begin to walk towards an abandoned part of town. Takes me not long, a few hours by foot, I could have taken a bus but frankly, I don't have the money waste and I've got to eat. I find a dark alley way that hasn't been used in ages, there is the body of an abandoned car by the left wall, some rubbish bins a few paces away and a broken line waving in the wind hanging onto a rusted gutter. Opening my rucksack, I get out a rope and tarpaulin and try to patch up the car as best I can. The doors still work and can lock from the inside. The driver's seat is missing, but the back seat looks comfy and dry, I go back to my rucksack and grab a sheet, pillow and sleeping bag. When I duck out of the car, I'm met by two tall boys, one with dark hair and the other with white.
"What are you doing, only scum lives in a place like this! The white haired one speaks to me.
"Sometimes, you just make do with what you can get, now beat it!" I reply back.
"Nope, not a valid response, Avalanche sort her out!" He points at me.
"Time to rock, girly!" Avalanche laughs and stamps his foot on the ground, making the buildings vibrate and crumble around me.
I freak out, not knowing what to do I drop to my knees and it happens. My skin turns to a silvery metallic hue and my hands and feet melt and harden to the ground. I feel solid and I remain attached until the tremor ceases. My metal skin cracks and sheds like dried paint and get up to face them both.
"She's a mutant, Quicksilver, you see that!" Avalanche shocked takes a step back.
"Magneto will have something to say about this." He replies back to Avalanche and turns to me. "You should look at yourself in the mirror, freak!"
They disappear around the corner and pull away in their jeep, I'm confused so I take a compact out of my handbag and look my complexion. My skin is pink and raw like I've been sunburnt and my hair, its changed from the rich brown colour it was before, to a pale bleached blonde colour.
A memory flashes back in my mind from a time long forgotten. I see faceless doctors injecting me with substances and monitoring strange machines around me. A tiny hand reaches out to a window above me and more doctors begin to strap me down and I feel pain as electric shocks are applied to my limbs and torso. I scream out in pain, then I snap back to reality. I look at my face again, so hot and sore. I rummage through the rucksack for some relief, all I find is 10 cents and a bar of gum. I add the coin to my purse and head over to the nearest drugstore.
"Hi, can I help you?" Comes a voice from the side counter. A man pops his head up and his face changes expression from happy to pity and curious. "Can I offer you anything for...um...that, it looks quite sore."
"It is, I was wondering if you've got some cheap lotion or something. Its just a bit of sunburn."
"Ah yeah, sure." He ducks back down under his counter and returns with a plastic bottle filled with a green gel. "That'll be $6.85, thank you."
I look in my purse at the meagre amount of change I have, then look pleadingly at the man. "Have you got it in a smaller bottle?"
I must have looked a real poor case, wearing a brown jacket with frayed stitching and holes in both legs of my jeans, the sandals on my feet just held together with some nifty sewing.
He turns back around and then shows me a miniscule bottle with the same green gel in it. "This is $2.45?"
"I'll take it, thanks." I lay the change on the counter and he places the bottle in my hand and smiles. I leave and stand outside to look at the bottle. There's something wrapped around it, its a shopping voucher for the value of $10!
I smile back at the clerk through the window and head for the local Supermarket.
I'm minding my own business walking on the pavement when I hear a car screeching it's brakes and swerving right for me. I jump out of the way and land in some bushes. I hear the tyres squeal on the pavement and finally stop. There is some yelling and two car doors open, a person jogs over and stands near me.
"Ah, hello?" A young voice says with a slight accent.
I turn over and check myself out, my skin has turned back to it's silvery surface!
"Vhao! Are you O.K.?" A kid stands over me and lends me a hand. "I'm Kurt, you must be a mutant?"
"A what!?!!" I squint trying to focus on his face. I tense up and my surface flakes off again, it really hurts this time and I have bleeding scratches on my palms. "What did you call me?"
"A mutant, you knov, someone vith povers." He looks at my hand before helping me up. "Logan, have ve got anee anteeceptec lotion?"
Another guy, much older, walks over and looks at me. He glances at my face and sniffs, then looks at Kurt and back to me.
"You better come with us." Logan says and takes my arm but a flinch and pull back.
"No, I'll be fine, thanks."
"You're coming with us, I don't want to have to hurt you." Logan growls at me and reaches for my arm but I turn and run.
I continue to run but I hear in the distance Logan saying, "Stay here, I'll go get her, and don't touch the car!"
I'm running but he's catching up to me, so I stop and hold myself protectively. I think intensely and another attack happens. A high pitched screeching sound emits from somewhere and Logan drops to the ground covering his ears and groaning in pain, so is Kurt in the distance. I relax and the sound fades off, I feel incredibly weak and drop to my hands and knees grasping the ground to keep balance. Looking up, Logan is coming for me and looks very angry so I get up and look around for somewhere to hide.
"Just stop! Don't run!!" He yells as he gains on me and I'm gazing over to a road barrier.
I make for the barrier and gaze over, its a rocky cliff with a bush here and there, the bottom is a mass of gravel and sand. I think to myself, 'Its either that or the crazed maniac chasing me." I change into my metallic skin and brace myself, I jump over skidding and tumbling down the rocky hill rebounding off tree stumps and boulders like a pinball.
Finally reaching the bottom, I look up and see Logan glaring down at me, I've tumbled down quite a hill!
My skin is scratched and chipped, changing back the scratches appear as giant grazes and deep bruises, forgetting my palms are still bleeding.
A puff of smoke and a blue, furry guy appears wearing Kurt's clothes. "We're all mutants, don't be scared. Come vith us, ve can help you." He says and touches my shoulder, then we're transported back to the top of the hill where Logan was looking down, he gives me a grimace.
"Do we have to restrain her?" He asks Kurt, who is holding my arm. He shakes his head and leads me to the car.
Logan is occupied driving, so Kurt asks, "By the vay, vhat vas your name?"
"Selaeste. Just call me Sally." I smile back, trying to pay no attention to the current state of pain I was in.
"Vell, velcome to the insteetute of Professor Xavier." He points out a large gate the car has pulled up to, beyond that is a huge mansion.
"Ah, why have you brought me here?"
To be continued...
A.T.- I hope you all enjoyed that, I don't know how these thing are supposed to be written but I don't care, go review this, or not!