OK. You have to pay attention here, because this could get confusing. In the last chapter, I set the background for Fairenth. She was killed in a witch trial (actually, she didn't even have a trial), swore she would come back, blah blah blah, lol. There is a great importance behind Fairenth though, since she was a big step in Bayville history. So there has to be a myth, right? But as you read on, you'll find out, just as the X-Men do, that the myth isn't so far from the truth.....
DISCLAIMER: They are NOT mine. Only Fairenth.
'A Soul Reborn'
By BlueEyes
"So uh, she died..." Kurt started with a bewildered look as he paused. He looked to the others, uncertain, and then turned his yellow eyes back to the Professor.
"...And now she is coming back? I don't know about anyone else here, but does this sound like some sorta defective sci-fi movie?" he quipped, and raised an eyebrow. Logan shot him a dirty look that spoke volumes, and Kurt just lowered himself onto the couch with a lament. Scott sighed, and tried to save the already impending situation Kurt managed to obtain.
"What he means is... how is this true? Professor, she died. How do you just.... come back?" he said, and the others nodded slightly with intrigue. The Professor sighed, and opened the diminutive text book he had earlier, and laid it on the table for them to look. They all leaned over, and examined the little painting. Kitty rubbed her forehead lightly.
"She's uh... interesting" she said, speaking of Fairenth's... peculiarity. Professor Xavier nodded shortly.
"As you all know, her name is Fairenth Ann Croix. When she was born, her mother and father hid her from the others, ashamed, keeping her concealed for fifteen solid years. The week after her sixteenth birthday, she was found outback, fetching water for her parents. Of course, they were apprehensive, and dubbed her as a witch, or damned, for lack of better words. She had tried to excape, but they caught her, and immersed her in Perdition River." He paused, and picked up another, heavier book he had found, with more data. He pointed to the now inanimate picture of Fairenth.
"..And there she is. I have been conscious of something big coming, but the feeling is so vague, my mind was convinced my senses were just on overload. But trusting my instincts, I researched anyway. Then I came across her picture" he hesitated, and took a deep breath.
"I felt something, and I adjusted my powers right onto the picture, and it seemed to have been successful because I heard her, I heard Fairenth talk to me. As deranged as it sounds, she told me that 'she shall rise from the ashes..' and then she was gone. But I do know for certain, that she is an energy to be reckoned with. Stronger than any of the mutants you will ever face in a lifetime. She was the conception of all that is Homo Superior, and she is still the most powerful. That's why this is so significant to get to her, before any one else does. That is, if this turns out to be solid truth" he said, trying to get the point across and skimming over the details of the picture seeming coming to life on him. They all remained silent, till Jean suddenly perked.
"Hey uh, isn't Perdition River where that tree is growing out of the water?" she inquired, and Evan looked at her, stunned .
"You've never heard the story behind that tree?" he asked, incredulous. She smirked.
"No, I haven't. All I know about that tree, is that all my friends go there with their boyfriends to-" Kitty cut her off before she said the inevitable.
"To go swimming. They go there to swim with their boyfriends" she finished, and shot a look to Jean, who was now blushing a deep red at her slip. Logan grunted in the corner, and Kitty cringed as she gestured for Evan to go on.
"Anyway, has anyone heard of that parable?" he asked, and only Kurt raised his two fingered hand. The rest seemed doubtful, and he looked at the Professor, who also had a vacant look on his face. He sighed.
"Maybe you should tell us about this myth, Evan" Ororo offered from her stance, and the Professor nodded with a look of mentality drifting on and off his face.
"Hmmm" he muttered simply, and Evan sat forward to tell the rest of them, a grin playing his lips.
"all right. Well, since the Prof. just told you guys of her death and sorts, I'm just going to get to the point here" he said, and cleared his throat as he began.
"So they drowned Fairenth in the center of Perdition River. Once the whole deal was set, and they were convinced she was dead, the Pastor and his people decided to call it a night, and get the body in the morning. So they do exactly that, and get up the next morning to look around the rocks in the river, to find her body. Nothing. No clothes, no body, no fragments of anything, just plain nothing. Then, as they started to just shrug it off, they heard someone yelling for them at the spot they were just last night. So the Pastor walks over first, and what do they find exactly in the place they drowned Fairenth?" he paused dramatically, and looked at all of them before continuing.
"An Oak tree. Growing out of the deepest part of the river, where they believed trees can't grow. And the weirdest thing of it all, was the fact that the leaves were a mix of distinct colors, like brown, yellow, light yellow, red... everything. And why do those colors sound familiar?" he paused again, and the Professor responded for him.
"The colors of her hair" he said, watching the painted picture once again. Her hair was indeed, dark red, blonde, dirty blonde, brown, light brown, and about every natural hair color you could imagine... she had. He turned his attention back to Evan as he continued.
"Exactly. The people in the town got scared, and the Pastor claimed that she had 'damned' the river, and so they started to call it Perdition River, for obvious reasons. No one was allowed to drink from it, bathe in it, or anything. It was strictly cut off, and no one dared to go near it. It also reads in the myth that Fairenth had a curse or something on her, that her spirit was forever trapped in that tree. But as the story goes... listen up, here is the really interesting part, people" he took a deep breath, and looked over to the Professor.
"...and the legend says that for as long as the tree stays standing, Fairenth will remain trapped. But once the tree dies, or is knocked down... she is destined to walk the earth again" he finished, and the Professor undertoned the words again.
"And from the ashes she shall rise..." Rogue suddenly looked uncomfortable, and started to shift in her seat. She looked about the room with rash eyes, and then turned to the Professor with insistence.
"Professor, you had a apparition saying she was coming back, right?" she asked, her breathing becoming heavier.
"Well, yes Rogue. A very clear one, at that" he mumbled the last part, truly and utterly perplexed. Rogue glanced at him, and the Professor became concerned. Rogue hardly ever exhibited fear.
"Rogue, are you-"
"Professor, if that myth has any truth to it at all, then we are in some huge trouble here" she drawled out in her southern voice, and turned to all of them, as they gawked at her.
"You guys, they knocked down the tree on Perdition River not even a week ago"
Uh oh, huh? That can't be good news. I don't want you to get the idea that Fairenth is out to be bad though, because she isn't intending to be. Just a plain old, powerful but completely perplexed character, with her mind in all the wrong places. All right, so did that fill some of the empty holes? Kinda? I promise this is all going to come together in the next chapter. So read on people, and keep the reviews coming!
DISCLAIMER: They are NOT mine. Only Fairenth.
'A Soul Reborn'
By BlueEyes
"So uh, she died..." Kurt started with a bewildered look as he paused. He looked to the others, uncertain, and then turned his yellow eyes back to the Professor.
"...And now she is coming back? I don't know about anyone else here, but does this sound like some sorta defective sci-fi movie?" he quipped, and raised an eyebrow. Logan shot him a dirty look that spoke volumes, and Kurt just lowered himself onto the couch with a lament. Scott sighed, and tried to save the already impending situation Kurt managed to obtain.
"What he means is... how is this true? Professor, she died. How do you just.... come back?" he said, and the others nodded slightly with intrigue. The Professor sighed, and opened the diminutive text book he had earlier, and laid it on the table for them to look. They all leaned over, and examined the little painting. Kitty rubbed her forehead lightly.
"She's uh... interesting" she said, speaking of Fairenth's... peculiarity. Professor Xavier nodded shortly.
"As you all know, her name is Fairenth Ann Croix. When she was born, her mother and father hid her from the others, ashamed, keeping her concealed for fifteen solid years. The week after her sixteenth birthday, she was found outback, fetching water for her parents. Of course, they were apprehensive, and dubbed her as a witch, or damned, for lack of better words. She had tried to excape, but they caught her, and immersed her in Perdition River." He paused, and picked up another, heavier book he had found, with more data. He pointed to the now inanimate picture of Fairenth.
"..And there she is. I have been conscious of something big coming, but the feeling is so vague, my mind was convinced my senses were just on overload. But trusting my instincts, I researched anyway. Then I came across her picture" he hesitated, and took a deep breath.
"I felt something, and I adjusted my powers right onto the picture, and it seemed to have been successful because I heard her, I heard Fairenth talk to me. As deranged as it sounds, she told me that 'she shall rise from the ashes..' and then she was gone. But I do know for certain, that she is an energy to be reckoned with. Stronger than any of the mutants you will ever face in a lifetime. She was the conception of all that is Homo Superior, and she is still the most powerful. That's why this is so significant to get to her, before any one else does. That is, if this turns out to be solid truth" he said, trying to get the point across and skimming over the details of the picture seeming coming to life on him. They all remained silent, till Jean suddenly perked.
"Hey uh, isn't Perdition River where that tree is growing out of the water?" she inquired, and Evan looked at her, stunned .
"You've never heard the story behind that tree?" he asked, incredulous. She smirked.
"No, I haven't. All I know about that tree, is that all my friends go there with their boyfriends to-" Kitty cut her off before she said the inevitable.
"To go swimming. They go there to swim with their boyfriends" she finished, and shot a look to Jean, who was now blushing a deep red at her slip. Logan grunted in the corner, and Kitty cringed as she gestured for Evan to go on.
"Anyway, has anyone heard of that parable?" he asked, and only Kurt raised his two fingered hand. The rest seemed doubtful, and he looked at the Professor, who also had a vacant look on his face. He sighed.
"Maybe you should tell us about this myth, Evan" Ororo offered from her stance, and the Professor nodded with a look of mentality drifting on and off his face.
"Hmmm" he muttered simply, and Evan sat forward to tell the rest of them, a grin playing his lips.
"all right. Well, since the Prof. just told you guys of her death and sorts, I'm just going to get to the point here" he said, and cleared his throat as he began.
"So they drowned Fairenth in the center of Perdition River. Once the whole deal was set, and they were convinced she was dead, the Pastor and his people decided to call it a night, and get the body in the morning. So they do exactly that, and get up the next morning to look around the rocks in the river, to find her body. Nothing. No clothes, no body, no fragments of anything, just plain nothing. Then, as they started to just shrug it off, they heard someone yelling for them at the spot they were just last night. So the Pastor walks over first, and what do they find exactly in the place they drowned Fairenth?" he paused dramatically, and looked at all of them before continuing.
"An Oak tree. Growing out of the deepest part of the river, where they believed trees can't grow. And the weirdest thing of it all, was the fact that the leaves were a mix of distinct colors, like brown, yellow, light yellow, red... everything. And why do those colors sound familiar?" he paused again, and the Professor responded for him.
"The colors of her hair" he said, watching the painted picture once again. Her hair was indeed, dark red, blonde, dirty blonde, brown, light brown, and about every natural hair color you could imagine... she had. He turned his attention back to Evan as he continued.
"Exactly. The people in the town got scared, and the Pastor claimed that she had 'damned' the river, and so they started to call it Perdition River, for obvious reasons. No one was allowed to drink from it, bathe in it, or anything. It was strictly cut off, and no one dared to go near it. It also reads in the myth that Fairenth had a curse or something on her, that her spirit was forever trapped in that tree. But as the story goes... listen up, here is the really interesting part, people" he took a deep breath, and looked over to the Professor.
"...and the legend says that for as long as the tree stays standing, Fairenth will remain trapped. But once the tree dies, or is knocked down... she is destined to walk the earth again" he finished, and the Professor undertoned the words again.
"And from the ashes she shall rise..." Rogue suddenly looked uncomfortable, and started to shift in her seat. She looked about the room with rash eyes, and then turned to the Professor with insistence.
"Professor, you had a apparition saying she was coming back, right?" she asked, her breathing becoming heavier.
"Well, yes Rogue. A very clear one, at that" he mumbled the last part, truly and utterly perplexed. Rogue glanced at him, and the Professor became concerned. Rogue hardly ever exhibited fear.
"Rogue, are you-"
"Professor, if that myth has any truth to it at all, then we are in some huge trouble here" she drawled out in her southern voice, and turned to all of them, as they gawked at her.
"You guys, they knocked down the tree on Perdition River not even a week ago"
Uh oh, huh? That can't be good news. I don't want you to get the idea that Fairenth is out to be bad though, because she isn't intending to be. Just a plain old, powerful but completely perplexed character, with her mind in all the wrong places. All right, so did that fill some of the empty holes? Kinda? I promise this is all going to come together in the next chapter. So read on people, and keep the reviews coming!