-----Disclaimer: I don't own X-men Evolution, I only own Damia. Notes:
^^Thoughts^^, (Aussie/Greek Translation), Telepathic speaking.------
Chapter Eleven: Woman From The Past
Damia opened her eyes slowly, and closed them shut. The light was strong, she need to get adjusted to it. As she adjusted to the light the memories of the fight came back. There were some unanswered questions like: Why didn't Magneto use that machine? What was that familiar presence she felt before she passed out? She was broken from her thoughts as a familiar Aussie accent spoke.
"G'day." John was standing beside her bed, dressed in civilian clothes.
"Aspasmos." (Greetings). She replied with a small smile. "How long have I been asleep?" Her eyes were now adjusted and she could see John clearly.
John frowned "A week."
Damia's eyes widened. "And the Brotherhood?"
"Haven't seen them sense the fight." John told her.
"And you?" she asked.
"Apples (fine) now that you're up." He smiled.
"I am famished, can I go to the kitchen and eat, or do I have to stay here?" She wanted to get up and about.
John nodded and helped her out of her bed, they walked to the kitchen, and Damia got out the ingredients to make a sandwich, when she had made it, then went to the dinning room and they sat next to each other. Damia was surprised to see Rogue come in after her.
"What time is it?" Damia asked John.
"Noon." He told her.
"Day?" she questioned.
"Saturday." He replied.
She saw Rogue and Remy speaking quietly. Rogue had just awakened as well, she could tell from her messy hair and her red eyes.
"How are things going with the team?" Damia was on a questions overload, but John didn't mind. She had been unconscious for a week. "Well, everyone is nice enough, except for." John began but decided not to finish his statement.
"Scott." Damia finished his sentence for him.
John nodded.
"Well, as much as I would love to chat, the gods demand worship." Damia got up slowly. "And I haven't honored them in some time."
John was confused by her statement, he didn't know her religion. He followed her, as she walked up the stairs and into her room.
She turned knowing he was behind her. "I'm fine, could you excuse me?"
John nodded and left the room. He went downstairs to talk with Remy.
"Hey." Rogue smiled.
"G'day" John replied.
"Where's de chere?" Remy asked him.
"I think she has to worship her gods." John replied not to sure of his answer.
"Yeah, she does that once every month. It's rather pretty. Ah love watchin her." Rogue told him.
"What does she do?" John asked Rogue suddenly interested in his girlfriend's rituals.
"It's hard ta explain." Rogue began "Ah think ya better just watch her."
"Oh." He was confused.
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Damia came down the stairs, cleansed from her shower. She was dressed in a white dress in the style of the ancient Greeks. When she had come to the X- men she had asked for a spot of earth to place her statuses of the gods and goddesses, for her worship. The professor was kind enough to allow it, and when Damia's family sent her the statuses she placed them in the area she had chosen. Every month she visited them with flowers, and fruit, in her ceremonial gown. When she would perform the ritual the others always watched, but she paid no attention. She was to busy in her worship and praying. She had no idea how lovely she looked while she preformed her ceremony. Everyone had told her that she looked like a Greek myth brought to life, and she always smiled at the comment.
She saw John come in from the kitchen and smiled at him. He was in awe; she looked so magical, and exotic. Like some beautiful painting of the Greeks one would see in the museum. She continued to walk, and she exited the mansion through the front door. It was a lovely day, the sun was shinning in the sky, and the wind blew lightly. She smiled as the wind kissed her face. Her green hair flowed in the wind as she kneeled in front of the statues in a small garden.
John and some of the others had followed her outside, and watched her in the shrine as she placed flowers before each of the deities.
Damia began to pray in her native language, the sound was musical to the people who watched. Staring at the status of a man with a long beard she said "Knvernyitis Zeus toy rologioy Olymus pera apo me, kai ekeinoi gyro apo me etot oote kamia ximia dev bopei na epthei se mas. Sas evchapisto gia tin prostatia sas." (Zeus ruler of Olymus watch over myself, and those around me so that no harm may come to us. I thank you for your protection.) Damia continued to pray to each god and goddess, she had honored Zeus to watch over her, Hera to help her relatives' marriages, Athena for wisdom on her judgment, Pan for her to not be afraid of her destiny, Demeter for good earth to aid in her power, Hestia thanking her for keeping the hearth, Hermes to aid her and the X-men in their quest for peace, Ares to be on her side as she fought, Artemis for the moon to shine at night, Hades for life, Dionysus to grant wishes of the innocent, Hephaestus for fire for Pyro, Poseidon for the water to always come, and lastly she prayed to Aphrodite for her love to grow and for love to conquer hate. She rose from her knees and walked backwards from the deities, until she was out of her shrine. She then turned and saw Kitty, Rogue, John, and Jubilee staring at her.
She smiled at them and continued to walk to the mansion "Yes?"
"That was different." John said, not really knowing how to describe it.
"Hopefully they will grant my prayers." Damia replied.
"Ah'm sure they will sugar." Rogue told her.
"Like what did you ask them?" Kitty asked her.
Damia smiled "Each one?"
"Well, not all of them just the like goddess of love." Kitty said; she had brushed up on her Greek deities while Damia was around. Kitty now knew each by name and what they stood for.
Damia looked at John then to the sky "I asked Aphrodite for love to conquer hate."
"Nothing about me?" John asked with a smile.
"Maybe, maybe not you'll have to ask the goddess." Damia smiled.
"That's a yes." Jubilee said with a smile.
They all walked back into the mansion together, Kitty had a surprise to tell Rogue and Damia, but they needed to go inside first.
When they entered the living room, all of the students stood in the room with smiling faces.
"What's the surprise?" Rogue asked Kitty.
"Well, like in honor of you and your waking up and like kicking major butt, we decided to go on a field trip." Kitty told the two girls.
"What exactly did ya have in mind?" Rogue was a bit scared of the answer.
"It's open mike night at Happy Days, so we decided what better way to get you into the grove of things than food and hilarious singing." Tabby smiled.
"Oh Gawd!" Rogue sighed, but she had to admit that it would be funny to watch some of them sing.
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They all sat in a booth with a table added to it to fit everyone. So far they had eaten and no one had yet dared to go up and sing.
"So who is the first victim?" Bobby asked with a sly smile.
"Does everyone have to go?" Amara questioned, hoping she could get out of singing in front of her team mates.
"No, but if you like want to make Damia and Rogue feel better." Kitty laid a guilt trip on them.
"Okay, I will go but not by myself." Jean said then asked "Who will go with me?"
Damia, Rogue; who only did so because she didn't want to hear Damia beg any longer, and Kitty agreed and began to look at the list of songs.
"Oh, like how about this one. It has like four parts." Kitty said and pointed to 'Lady Marmalade' by Pink, Lil Kim, Christina Aguilera, and Maya.
Rogue actually liked the song but said she would do Maya's part of the song because she liked that part. Kitty was doing Pink's, Damia was doing Christina's and Jean was doing Lil Kim's because she couldn't sing a note.
When the girl's got on stage they heard a cheer from their friends and other people in the restaurant. Rogue had her hand over her face in embarrassment, and Damia's eyes were wide and she stood still not moving at all with a bad case of stage fright.
The music began, and Jean began laughing while she said the words *Where's all my soul sistas, Lemme hear ya'll flow sistas.* There where some laughs from the crowd.
Rouge began the other little intro then began her part sing rather well *He met Marmalade down in ol' Moulin Rouge Struttin' her stuff on the street.* Rogue began to strut her stuff like she saw in the video. *She said hello hey Jo, you wanna give it a go? Oh! Uh huh.*
All four of them began even Damia who had loosened up after Jean's hilarious intro, *Giuchie, giuchie ya ya dad a, Giuchie giuchie ya ya here, Mocha Chocalata ya ya, Creole lady Marmalade. Voulez vous coucher avec mo ice soir, voulez vous coucher avec moi.*
It was Kitty's turn and she was willing to put on a show she sang full force * He sat in her boudoir while she freshened up, Boy drank all that Magnolia wine on her black satin sheets is where he started to freak yeah* she smiled when she had finished. They sang the chorus again, louder than the first time.
Jean smiled as she 'sang' her part, * He come through with the money and the garter bags
I let him know we bout that cake straight up the gate uh, We independent women, some mistake us for whores, I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours
Disagree? Well that's you and I'm sorry, Imma keep playing these cats out like Atari
Wear ideal shoes get love from the dudes, 4 bad ass chicks from the Moulin Rouge
hey sistas, soul sistas, betta get that dough sistas, We drink wine with diamonds in the glass, bottle case the meaning of expensive taste, if you wanna Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya
Mocha Chocalate-a what? Real Lady Marmalade, One more time C'mon now * To Jean's and the others surprise she sounded decent. They sang the chorus again; Damia's stage fright all but vanished.
Damia looked seductively at the crowd the way Rogue had done and sang * Touch of her skin feeling silky smooth, color of cafe au lait alright, Made the savage beast inside roar until he cried, More-more-more*
Kitty sang still a smile gracing her features * Now he's back home doin' 9 to 5*
* Sleepin' the grey flannel life* Rogue smiled at Damia who started her part * But when he turns off to sleep memories creep, More-more-more *
* Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya dada, Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya here, Mocha Choca lata ya ya, Creole lady Marmalade, Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir, Voulez vous coucher avec moi, Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir, Voulez vous coucher avec moi.* They sang in unison. Each girl did their last little end part and the song ended with Jean and Kitty back to back, and Rogue and Damia back to back. The crowd clapped their hands, and hoots and cat calls were made. The girls took a bow, and went back to their seats.
"Bon travail chere." (Good job.) Remy smiled at Rogue who blushed.
"Never knew you could rap Jean." Evan smiled.
Jean laughed "Neither did I, though I don't think that was rapping more reading the screen quickly."
They laughed at her comment. All in all the girls had done an excellent job.
Everyone had at least gone on stage once. Kurt and Bobby sung a hilarious remake of 'War', Kurt doing an excellent job at grunting. Bobby had dared Ray, Remy, Scott, and John to do the YMCA song, which they surprisingly did the gestures too. Amara, and Jubilee sang the 'The Boy Is Mine' using Jamie as the boy, fortunately he didn't create multiples of himself while being pulled back and forth between them. Rahne and Roberto sang the J-Lo, and LL Cool-J song 'All I Have'; Sam, and Evan rapped to 'Sing' by Eminem with Sam doing the actual singing and Evan rapping. Also Tabby and Kitty were the last to be on stage making fun of Britney Spears' song 'Boys' with Evan doing the rapping.
Everyone was having a wonderful time talking, laughing, eating and singing. There was the tension between John, Damia, and Scott but they tried their best to have a good time. John was pretty much at Damia's side the entire time; he had missed her while she was in the med bay. He got along with Remy really well, and some of the others, but he wanted to see her, she meant a lot to him.
John took another sip of his cherry coke listening to the conversation about some of the recent school gossip. Apparently, Bayville had won the championship basketball game and Evan couldn't stop bragging. The others listened to his story for the tenth time that evening, when a woman stepped gracefully onto the stage, and held the mike. They looked to see the women who had long blonde hair pulled back into a braid; she had brown eyes, and tan skin. The music started and she began her song.
*Can't you see, the devil in me
just take a look in my eyes
I will play for you, this wicked melody
it's magic will reach for your soul
It burns inside, no place to hide
this strange tune possesses your mind
It comes over you, and the nightmare is true
you'll enter the realm of the dark
You are bewitched ...* The woman's spell began, all in the room locked their eyes on her. The spell affected everyone in the room except for Damia whose eyes widened at the sight of the woman.
*Bewitched by delight, you'll reach the night
dancing and singing to my fiddle
So take my hand, and understand
that no-one will see you again
You are bewitched ...* The spell deepened onto the unknowing victims.
*I am the master of the enchanted true
I'll play for your joy, for your soul, for your doom
My fingers they dance upon the strings like fire
weaving a spell of my burning desire
Sing with me, meet your destiny
set yourself free to the magic
So come with me, my kingdom to see
believe me you're captured my friend
You are bewitched...* The woman finished and looked straight at Damia and a smile crossed her face.
Damia suddenly looked at the faces of her friends. She saw the spell had cast itself over them like fog on a cold night. There was only one way to break it, and Damia only had time to save one. She knew it would have to be someone who could help her break the others from the woman's spell. Her only choice would be Rouge. Tears filled Damia's eyes as memories filled her mind. The woman, who she had run from, had found her.
The woman got off the stage and walked to the table that the X-men had been sitting at; she gave them a warm smile, and said "Follow me."
The students got up from the table and left the restaurant with no argument about forgetting the bill, because everyone else was under the trance. Damia followed for the sake of saving one of her friends from the woman's spell. They walked, and soon Damia realized they were in an ally, it was dark, and cold. Damia decided she had better act now. But, before she did anything she walked to John, and gave him a kiss. She knew that he wouldn't respond like he normally would because of the trance he was in.
She quickly ran up to the woman who gave her an evil smile, making Damia shudder, but it didn't stop the girl from concentrating on her powers. Leaves flew around Damia, and she threw her hand in motion toward the woman, and they cut her causing her to bleed. The razor sharp leaves had also cut Rouge. The woman had yelled something to the others, and they ran at her trying to capture her, but Damia made roots come through the solid concrete and held her teammates feet in the places they stood. Damia leaped at the woman and caught some of the woman's blood on her fingers, and then leaped onto Rouge mixing Rouge's blood with the woman's. Damia was never known for being fast but she now moved as fast as she was able and she secretly wondered if she hadn't gotten some help from the god Hermes for her quickness at that very moment. She had even though she might be able to save some of the others but they were already out of their confines. So, she quickly got the surprised and confused Rouge to absorb Kurt, and teleport them back to the mansion.
The girls had ported into Rouge's room. Rogue's hands flew to her forehead trying to make sense of the events. But, she had no idea what happened. Rogue stared at Damia blankly, she was sure of one thing; whatever happened Damia knew what it was.
"What was that?" Rogue looked at her friend.
Damia sighed heavily. "It's a long story."
---------Please review. ~Alana-------
Chapter Eleven: Woman From The Past
Damia opened her eyes slowly, and closed them shut. The light was strong, she need to get adjusted to it. As she adjusted to the light the memories of the fight came back. There were some unanswered questions like: Why didn't Magneto use that machine? What was that familiar presence she felt before she passed out? She was broken from her thoughts as a familiar Aussie accent spoke.
"G'day." John was standing beside her bed, dressed in civilian clothes.
"Aspasmos." (Greetings). She replied with a small smile. "How long have I been asleep?" Her eyes were now adjusted and she could see John clearly.
John frowned "A week."
Damia's eyes widened. "And the Brotherhood?"
"Haven't seen them sense the fight." John told her.
"And you?" she asked.
"Apples (fine) now that you're up." He smiled.
"I am famished, can I go to the kitchen and eat, or do I have to stay here?" She wanted to get up and about.
John nodded and helped her out of her bed, they walked to the kitchen, and Damia got out the ingredients to make a sandwich, when she had made it, then went to the dinning room and they sat next to each other. Damia was surprised to see Rogue come in after her.
"What time is it?" Damia asked John.
"Noon." He told her.
"Day?" she questioned.
"Saturday." He replied.
She saw Rogue and Remy speaking quietly. Rogue had just awakened as well, she could tell from her messy hair and her red eyes.
"How are things going with the team?" Damia was on a questions overload, but John didn't mind. She had been unconscious for a week. "Well, everyone is nice enough, except for." John began but decided not to finish his statement.
"Scott." Damia finished his sentence for him.
John nodded.
"Well, as much as I would love to chat, the gods demand worship." Damia got up slowly. "And I haven't honored them in some time."
John was confused by her statement, he didn't know her religion. He followed her, as she walked up the stairs and into her room.
She turned knowing he was behind her. "I'm fine, could you excuse me?"
John nodded and left the room. He went downstairs to talk with Remy.
"Hey." Rogue smiled.
"G'day" John replied.
"Where's de chere?" Remy asked him.
"I think she has to worship her gods." John replied not to sure of his answer.
"Yeah, she does that once every month. It's rather pretty. Ah love watchin her." Rogue told him.
"What does she do?" John asked Rogue suddenly interested in his girlfriend's rituals.
"It's hard ta explain." Rogue began "Ah think ya better just watch her."
"Oh." He was confused.
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Damia came down the stairs, cleansed from her shower. She was dressed in a white dress in the style of the ancient Greeks. When she had come to the X- men she had asked for a spot of earth to place her statuses of the gods and goddesses, for her worship. The professor was kind enough to allow it, and when Damia's family sent her the statuses she placed them in the area she had chosen. Every month she visited them with flowers, and fruit, in her ceremonial gown. When she would perform the ritual the others always watched, but she paid no attention. She was to busy in her worship and praying. She had no idea how lovely she looked while she preformed her ceremony. Everyone had told her that she looked like a Greek myth brought to life, and she always smiled at the comment.
She saw John come in from the kitchen and smiled at him. He was in awe; she looked so magical, and exotic. Like some beautiful painting of the Greeks one would see in the museum. She continued to walk, and she exited the mansion through the front door. It was a lovely day, the sun was shinning in the sky, and the wind blew lightly. She smiled as the wind kissed her face. Her green hair flowed in the wind as she kneeled in front of the statues in a small garden.
John and some of the others had followed her outside, and watched her in the shrine as she placed flowers before each of the deities.
Damia began to pray in her native language, the sound was musical to the people who watched. Staring at the status of a man with a long beard she said "Knvernyitis Zeus toy rologioy Olymus pera apo me, kai ekeinoi gyro apo me etot oote kamia ximia dev bopei na epthei se mas. Sas evchapisto gia tin prostatia sas." (Zeus ruler of Olymus watch over myself, and those around me so that no harm may come to us. I thank you for your protection.) Damia continued to pray to each god and goddess, she had honored Zeus to watch over her, Hera to help her relatives' marriages, Athena for wisdom on her judgment, Pan for her to not be afraid of her destiny, Demeter for good earth to aid in her power, Hestia thanking her for keeping the hearth, Hermes to aid her and the X-men in their quest for peace, Ares to be on her side as she fought, Artemis for the moon to shine at night, Hades for life, Dionysus to grant wishes of the innocent, Hephaestus for fire for Pyro, Poseidon for the water to always come, and lastly she prayed to Aphrodite for her love to grow and for love to conquer hate. She rose from her knees and walked backwards from the deities, until she was out of her shrine. She then turned and saw Kitty, Rogue, John, and Jubilee staring at her.
She smiled at them and continued to walk to the mansion "Yes?"
"That was different." John said, not really knowing how to describe it.
"Hopefully they will grant my prayers." Damia replied.
"Ah'm sure they will sugar." Rogue told her.
"Like what did you ask them?" Kitty asked her.
Damia smiled "Each one?"
"Well, not all of them just the like goddess of love." Kitty said; she had brushed up on her Greek deities while Damia was around. Kitty now knew each by name and what they stood for.
Damia looked at John then to the sky "I asked Aphrodite for love to conquer hate."
"Nothing about me?" John asked with a smile.
"Maybe, maybe not you'll have to ask the goddess." Damia smiled.
"That's a yes." Jubilee said with a smile.
They all walked back into the mansion together, Kitty had a surprise to tell Rogue and Damia, but they needed to go inside first.
When they entered the living room, all of the students stood in the room with smiling faces.
"What's the surprise?" Rogue asked Kitty.
"Well, like in honor of you and your waking up and like kicking major butt, we decided to go on a field trip." Kitty told the two girls.
"What exactly did ya have in mind?" Rogue was a bit scared of the answer.
"It's open mike night at Happy Days, so we decided what better way to get you into the grove of things than food and hilarious singing." Tabby smiled.
"Oh Gawd!" Rogue sighed, but she had to admit that it would be funny to watch some of them sing.
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They all sat in a booth with a table added to it to fit everyone. So far they had eaten and no one had yet dared to go up and sing.
"So who is the first victim?" Bobby asked with a sly smile.
"Does everyone have to go?" Amara questioned, hoping she could get out of singing in front of her team mates.
"No, but if you like want to make Damia and Rogue feel better." Kitty laid a guilt trip on them.
"Okay, I will go but not by myself." Jean said then asked "Who will go with me?"
Damia, Rogue; who only did so because she didn't want to hear Damia beg any longer, and Kitty agreed and began to look at the list of songs.
"Oh, like how about this one. It has like four parts." Kitty said and pointed to 'Lady Marmalade' by Pink, Lil Kim, Christina Aguilera, and Maya.
Rogue actually liked the song but said she would do Maya's part of the song because she liked that part. Kitty was doing Pink's, Damia was doing Christina's and Jean was doing Lil Kim's because she couldn't sing a note.
When the girl's got on stage they heard a cheer from their friends and other people in the restaurant. Rogue had her hand over her face in embarrassment, and Damia's eyes were wide and she stood still not moving at all with a bad case of stage fright.
The music began, and Jean began laughing while she said the words *Where's all my soul sistas, Lemme hear ya'll flow sistas.* There where some laughs from the crowd.
Rouge began the other little intro then began her part sing rather well *He met Marmalade down in ol' Moulin Rouge Struttin' her stuff on the street.* Rogue began to strut her stuff like she saw in the video. *She said hello hey Jo, you wanna give it a go? Oh! Uh huh.*
All four of them began even Damia who had loosened up after Jean's hilarious intro, *Giuchie, giuchie ya ya dad a, Giuchie giuchie ya ya here, Mocha Chocalata ya ya, Creole lady Marmalade. Voulez vous coucher avec mo ice soir, voulez vous coucher avec moi.*
It was Kitty's turn and she was willing to put on a show she sang full force * He sat in her boudoir while she freshened up, Boy drank all that Magnolia wine on her black satin sheets is where he started to freak yeah* she smiled when she had finished. They sang the chorus again, louder than the first time.
Jean smiled as she 'sang' her part, * He come through with the money and the garter bags
I let him know we bout that cake straight up the gate uh, We independent women, some mistake us for whores, I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours
Disagree? Well that's you and I'm sorry, Imma keep playing these cats out like Atari
Wear ideal shoes get love from the dudes, 4 bad ass chicks from the Moulin Rouge
hey sistas, soul sistas, betta get that dough sistas, We drink wine with diamonds in the glass, bottle case the meaning of expensive taste, if you wanna Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya
Mocha Chocalate-a what? Real Lady Marmalade, One more time C'mon now * To Jean's and the others surprise she sounded decent. They sang the chorus again; Damia's stage fright all but vanished.
Damia looked seductively at the crowd the way Rogue had done and sang * Touch of her skin feeling silky smooth, color of cafe au lait alright, Made the savage beast inside roar until he cried, More-more-more*
Kitty sang still a smile gracing her features * Now he's back home doin' 9 to 5*
* Sleepin' the grey flannel life* Rogue smiled at Damia who started her part * But when he turns off to sleep memories creep, More-more-more *
* Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya dada, Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya here, Mocha Choca lata ya ya, Creole lady Marmalade, Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir, Voulez vous coucher avec moi, Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir, Voulez vous coucher avec moi.* They sang in unison. Each girl did their last little end part and the song ended with Jean and Kitty back to back, and Rogue and Damia back to back. The crowd clapped their hands, and hoots and cat calls were made. The girls took a bow, and went back to their seats.
"Bon travail chere." (Good job.) Remy smiled at Rogue who blushed.
"Never knew you could rap Jean." Evan smiled.
Jean laughed "Neither did I, though I don't think that was rapping more reading the screen quickly."
They laughed at her comment. All in all the girls had done an excellent job.
Everyone had at least gone on stage once. Kurt and Bobby sung a hilarious remake of 'War', Kurt doing an excellent job at grunting. Bobby had dared Ray, Remy, Scott, and John to do the YMCA song, which they surprisingly did the gestures too. Amara, and Jubilee sang the 'The Boy Is Mine' using Jamie as the boy, fortunately he didn't create multiples of himself while being pulled back and forth between them. Rahne and Roberto sang the J-Lo, and LL Cool-J song 'All I Have'; Sam, and Evan rapped to 'Sing' by Eminem with Sam doing the actual singing and Evan rapping. Also Tabby and Kitty were the last to be on stage making fun of Britney Spears' song 'Boys' with Evan doing the rapping.
Everyone was having a wonderful time talking, laughing, eating and singing. There was the tension between John, Damia, and Scott but they tried their best to have a good time. John was pretty much at Damia's side the entire time; he had missed her while she was in the med bay. He got along with Remy really well, and some of the others, but he wanted to see her, she meant a lot to him.
John took another sip of his cherry coke listening to the conversation about some of the recent school gossip. Apparently, Bayville had won the championship basketball game and Evan couldn't stop bragging. The others listened to his story for the tenth time that evening, when a woman stepped gracefully onto the stage, and held the mike. They looked to see the women who had long blonde hair pulled back into a braid; she had brown eyes, and tan skin. The music started and she began her song.
*Can't you see, the devil in me
just take a look in my eyes
I will play for you, this wicked melody
it's magic will reach for your soul
It burns inside, no place to hide
this strange tune possesses your mind
It comes over you, and the nightmare is true
you'll enter the realm of the dark
You are bewitched ...* The woman's spell began, all in the room locked their eyes on her. The spell affected everyone in the room except for Damia whose eyes widened at the sight of the woman.
*Bewitched by delight, you'll reach the night
dancing and singing to my fiddle
So take my hand, and understand
that no-one will see you again
You are bewitched ...* The spell deepened onto the unknowing victims.
*I am the master of the enchanted true
I'll play for your joy, for your soul, for your doom
My fingers they dance upon the strings like fire
weaving a spell of my burning desire
Sing with me, meet your destiny
set yourself free to the magic
So come with me, my kingdom to see
believe me you're captured my friend
You are bewitched...* The woman finished and looked straight at Damia and a smile crossed her face.
Damia suddenly looked at the faces of her friends. She saw the spell had cast itself over them like fog on a cold night. There was only one way to break it, and Damia only had time to save one. She knew it would have to be someone who could help her break the others from the woman's spell. Her only choice would be Rouge. Tears filled Damia's eyes as memories filled her mind. The woman, who she had run from, had found her.
The woman got off the stage and walked to the table that the X-men had been sitting at; she gave them a warm smile, and said "Follow me."
The students got up from the table and left the restaurant with no argument about forgetting the bill, because everyone else was under the trance. Damia followed for the sake of saving one of her friends from the woman's spell. They walked, and soon Damia realized they were in an ally, it was dark, and cold. Damia decided she had better act now. But, before she did anything she walked to John, and gave him a kiss. She knew that he wouldn't respond like he normally would because of the trance he was in.
She quickly ran up to the woman who gave her an evil smile, making Damia shudder, but it didn't stop the girl from concentrating on her powers. Leaves flew around Damia, and she threw her hand in motion toward the woman, and they cut her causing her to bleed. The razor sharp leaves had also cut Rouge. The woman had yelled something to the others, and they ran at her trying to capture her, but Damia made roots come through the solid concrete and held her teammates feet in the places they stood. Damia leaped at the woman and caught some of the woman's blood on her fingers, and then leaped onto Rouge mixing Rouge's blood with the woman's. Damia was never known for being fast but she now moved as fast as she was able and she secretly wondered if she hadn't gotten some help from the god Hermes for her quickness at that very moment. She had even though she might be able to save some of the others but they were already out of their confines. So, she quickly got the surprised and confused Rouge to absorb Kurt, and teleport them back to the mansion.
The girls had ported into Rouge's room. Rogue's hands flew to her forehead trying to make sense of the events. But, she had no idea what happened. Rogue stared at Damia blankly, she was sure of one thing; whatever happened Damia knew what it was.
"What was that?" Rogue looked at her friend.
Damia sighed heavily. "It's a long story."
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