A/N-No one has reviewed yet, (( ( () but Wolf will meet up officially with
the other mutants in Chapter Three, so no rush. ( ( ) I'll admit chapter
one was choppy and maybe a little rushed, but in this one, I'll try to do
better. This is the chapter where she meets her "very odd" companion.
Enjoy!
Wolf meets Shocker:
"Now I am here." Wolf commented to herself, standing on the none descript street corner by a lone bus bench. The bus full of the stinky people was now roaring its way away from her. Wolf was slightly glad for the rain for the rain; it was washing away the faint traces of their scent that still drifted around her. However, it was also clearing away the coat of Lorene's Chanel No.5 and Simon's various colognes, scents that Wolf wanted to keep for a while longer. Wolf swung her ransack that carried her few possessions forward and squeezed into a realtor office doorway.
She could hear the stirring of the janitor as he emptied the waste buckets with swaying to an oldies station. It was later than she had originally thought. Bayville was also much larger than Synderton, the closest town to Simon's and Lorene's farm, and the only one she had ever been too. 'This is going to be harder than I thought.' Wolf realized. She still had fifty dollars in her pocket, enough for a cheap hotel and a little something to eat in the morning. She knew tomorrow finding the Xavier institute must be her number one priority.
The rain became a rather pleasant drizzle when Wolf stepped out of the doorway in search of a place to sleep. She pulled her hair tie tighter to make sure her ears kept hidden underneath her hair. She thrust her hands into her jean pockets, and began walking south towards a distant hotel sign. She had not gone far when she heard the sounds of a somewhat close scuffle.
Curious, she sifted her path to the right and turned at the corner of ocean road and pine. There were two males and one female involved, she found after she sniffed the air more closely. She abandoned original plan of stealth, she ran towards the sounds and smells. She remembered what Lorene had told her about women who are cornered by men on the street. She finally rounded the corner to peer into a small alley.
It was not a women the two men had cornered, but a young girl lacking even the smallest endowments of womanhood. Her wild hair was a melee of one-inch wide red, orange, yellow, and even a few blue strands of earlobe length hair. Golden eyes stood out against her warm beige skin. She was dressed in an over sized white smiley face t-shirt that fell to her elbows and knees, tight jeans peered out from underneath and ran down to her bare feet. She was laying spread eagle over a trash bag, her long arms and legs hanging over the sides. She looked madder than hell, and was even growling at the men.
'A mutant.' Wolf thought. The men had not noticed her arrival, the girl either the men continued their interrogation.
"I'm gonna ask you one more time girl, why did you destroy my motorcycle?!" the largest one asked, eyes glaring from beneath thick eyebrows. Wolf looked past the man and saw the charred remains of a motorcycle; it looked as if lightning had struck it. 'How did she manage that?' she wondered, looking at the small girl who was now bravely climbing to her feet.
"Puck will not answer, you will just hurt Puck. Why should Puck tell you anything?" the girl answered with a question of her own.
"Look mutant, we did nothing to you, where do you get off doin' this to us?" the other man demanded.
"You lie, that man asked Puck to steal cigarettes for him in exchange for a sandwich. Puck did, but the man gave no food." She shot back, accusing the first man with a pointed right index finger.
"Shut up, I said no such thing!" the man snapped back.
"Yes you did!"
"Shut up!"
"Puck will not be silenced!"
Wolf decided to intervene when the man raised his hand in a fist. She grasped the man's hand ungloved for intimidation, but was careful not to cut him with her gloves.
"I cannot stand idle while this continues, she is just a child, you are two grown men, and she has no chance." Wolf said in a steady voice.
"Like hell she doesn't! She's a mutant and she's got powers. Look at what she did to my bike!" the man retorted.
"And even though you know she could do to you what she did to the bike you corner her and provoke her." Wolf shook her head." do you ever think anything out?"
"You're one of them aren't you?" the free man asked stepping up to Wolf. "One of those freaks from the school."
"The school? You know where the Xavier institute is? Please tell me where it is, I will leave you in peace along with Puck if you do." Wolf said.
"Sorry girlie, I don't make deals with freaks." He lunged forward at her, Wolf could move very quickly, so quickly that it looked like a blur to the human eye. Which is just what happened to the men, they did not even see her swing the first man around to collide with the second. They were just aware that they were now on the ground. The first man was knocked unconscious, but the second one still had some fight left in him. He feinted with his right hand and Wolf fell for it, and his left fist collided with her cheekbone, knocking her sunglasses away. Made bold by her falter he aimed for her mid section, but this time Wolf was prepared this time. She caught him by the throat with her right hand and held him away from her body. She was preparing to throw him into the wall when a screeching of breaks distracted her.
She moved the man out of her sight to the side. Someone atop a motorcycle had stopped short to stare at her. All she could see was the end of a golden mane and a large body, and a face that was masked by a helmet, but his scent spoke of a very confident and virile male. Strengthen by the fact that she could tell he bathed not to often. They looked at each other for one more second until the rider revved up the motor once again and disappeared into the darkness. The man began to struggle and Wolf finally threw him into the alley wall. She stood pondering for a few seconds the stranger on the bike, whether it was good or bad he had seen her without her disguise. 'Probably just some old biker' she told herself, trying not to get to worried.
"Hooray! Hooray! Puck has a friend!" Puck ran up and threw herself upon Wolf so hard that Wolf lost her balance and fell forward. Wolf wouldn't have really minded Puck's physical thanks, except in her joy Puck gave her a good shock of electricity.
"You look really funny with poofy hair." Puck told her when Wolf had crawled onto her knees. Wolf reached out to feel her hair, and indeed, it was now two more inches from her scalp than before.
"That is your power then, electric shocks? No wonder the bike looks like that." She said, turning her head to look at the black motorcycle frame.
"Oh yeah, Puck shocks people all the time, but Puck has never shocked a motorcycle before. Puck didn't mean to destroy it; it was such a pretty red. Puck didn't even know it belonged to him."
"Maybe your name should be Shocker instead of a William Shakespeare character's name."
"Shocker? Puck likes Puck likes."
"I think it's time to get you home kid, where to you live?" Wolf asked.
"Puck lives where Puck wants to live."
"Where does your family live?"
"Puck doesn't know. Dad left Puck in daycare one day and forgot to come back. They put Puck with crazy old lady but Puck didn't like her, so Puck left." Puck said as if this was something that happened to everyone, she even did a handstand in the middle of the story.
"Of course." Wolf muttered to herself. "How long you been alone?"
Puck shrugged, "Not long. Puck likes sleeping outside, Puck just gets hungry sometimes."
"I've been alone for three weeks, and even though I like being by myself, I think you should come with me." Wolf said.
"Of course Puck was going with you, you're Puck's new friend."
"I am Wolf, by the way. Do you know where the Xavier institute is?"
"No clue," Puck answered in a singsong voice.
"Well come on, I saw a hotel sign about a block back, we'll sleep there for the night."
"Yay!" Puck said, and danced all around Wolf the entire way to the Hotel.
******************A/N- Kind of cute isn't it. (^^) All right, I really need your votes so push the little button on the left. Come on, you know you want to push it. ^o_o^
Wolf meets Shocker:
"Now I am here." Wolf commented to herself, standing on the none descript street corner by a lone bus bench. The bus full of the stinky people was now roaring its way away from her. Wolf was slightly glad for the rain for the rain; it was washing away the faint traces of their scent that still drifted around her. However, it was also clearing away the coat of Lorene's Chanel No.5 and Simon's various colognes, scents that Wolf wanted to keep for a while longer. Wolf swung her ransack that carried her few possessions forward and squeezed into a realtor office doorway.
She could hear the stirring of the janitor as he emptied the waste buckets with swaying to an oldies station. It was later than she had originally thought. Bayville was also much larger than Synderton, the closest town to Simon's and Lorene's farm, and the only one she had ever been too. 'This is going to be harder than I thought.' Wolf realized. She still had fifty dollars in her pocket, enough for a cheap hotel and a little something to eat in the morning. She knew tomorrow finding the Xavier institute must be her number one priority.
The rain became a rather pleasant drizzle when Wolf stepped out of the doorway in search of a place to sleep. She pulled her hair tie tighter to make sure her ears kept hidden underneath her hair. She thrust her hands into her jean pockets, and began walking south towards a distant hotel sign. She had not gone far when she heard the sounds of a somewhat close scuffle.
Curious, she sifted her path to the right and turned at the corner of ocean road and pine. There were two males and one female involved, she found after she sniffed the air more closely. She abandoned original plan of stealth, she ran towards the sounds and smells. She remembered what Lorene had told her about women who are cornered by men on the street. She finally rounded the corner to peer into a small alley.
It was not a women the two men had cornered, but a young girl lacking even the smallest endowments of womanhood. Her wild hair was a melee of one-inch wide red, orange, yellow, and even a few blue strands of earlobe length hair. Golden eyes stood out against her warm beige skin. She was dressed in an over sized white smiley face t-shirt that fell to her elbows and knees, tight jeans peered out from underneath and ran down to her bare feet. She was laying spread eagle over a trash bag, her long arms and legs hanging over the sides. She looked madder than hell, and was even growling at the men.
'A mutant.' Wolf thought. The men had not noticed her arrival, the girl either the men continued their interrogation.
"I'm gonna ask you one more time girl, why did you destroy my motorcycle?!" the largest one asked, eyes glaring from beneath thick eyebrows. Wolf looked past the man and saw the charred remains of a motorcycle; it looked as if lightning had struck it. 'How did she manage that?' she wondered, looking at the small girl who was now bravely climbing to her feet.
"Puck will not answer, you will just hurt Puck. Why should Puck tell you anything?" the girl answered with a question of her own.
"Look mutant, we did nothing to you, where do you get off doin' this to us?" the other man demanded.
"You lie, that man asked Puck to steal cigarettes for him in exchange for a sandwich. Puck did, but the man gave no food." She shot back, accusing the first man with a pointed right index finger.
"Shut up, I said no such thing!" the man snapped back.
"Yes you did!"
"Shut up!"
"Puck will not be silenced!"
Wolf decided to intervene when the man raised his hand in a fist. She grasped the man's hand ungloved for intimidation, but was careful not to cut him with her gloves.
"I cannot stand idle while this continues, she is just a child, you are two grown men, and she has no chance." Wolf said in a steady voice.
"Like hell she doesn't! She's a mutant and she's got powers. Look at what she did to my bike!" the man retorted.
"And even though you know she could do to you what she did to the bike you corner her and provoke her." Wolf shook her head." do you ever think anything out?"
"You're one of them aren't you?" the free man asked stepping up to Wolf. "One of those freaks from the school."
"The school? You know where the Xavier institute is? Please tell me where it is, I will leave you in peace along with Puck if you do." Wolf said.
"Sorry girlie, I don't make deals with freaks." He lunged forward at her, Wolf could move very quickly, so quickly that it looked like a blur to the human eye. Which is just what happened to the men, they did not even see her swing the first man around to collide with the second. They were just aware that they were now on the ground. The first man was knocked unconscious, but the second one still had some fight left in him. He feinted with his right hand and Wolf fell for it, and his left fist collided with her cheekbone, knocking her sunglasses away. Made bold by her falter he aimed for her mid section, but this time Wolf was prepared this time. She caught him by the throat with her right hand and held him away from her body. She was preparing to throw him into the wall when a screeching of breaks distracted her.
She moved the man out of her sight to the side. Someone atop a motorcycle had stopped short to stare at her. All she could see was the end of a golden mane and a large body, and a face that was masked by a helmet, but his scent spoke of a very confident and virile male. Strengthen by the fact that she could tell he bathed not to often. They looked at each other for one more second until the rider revved up the motor once again and disappeared into the darkness. The man began to struggle and Wolf finally threw him into the alley wall. She stood pondering for a few seconds the stranger on the bike, whether it was good or bad he had seen her without her disguise. 'Probably just some old biker' she told herself, trying not to get to worried.
"Hooray! Hooray! Puck has a friend!" Puck ran up and threw herself upon Wolf so hard that Wolf lost her balance and fell forward. Wolf wouldn't have really minded Puck's physical thanks, except in her joy Puck gave her a good shock of electricity.
"You look really funny with poofy hair." Puck told her when Wolf had crawled onto her knees. Wolf reached out to feel her hair, and indeed, it was now two more inches from her scalp than before.
"That is your power then, electric shocks? No wonder the bike looks like that." She said, turning her head to look at the black motorcycle frame.
"Oh yeah, Puck shocks people all the time, but Puck has never shocked a motorcycle before. Puck didn't mean to destroy it; it was such a pretty red. Puck didn't even know it belonged to him."
"Maybe your name should be Shocker instead of a William Shakespeare character's name."
"Shocker? Puck likes Puck likes."
"I think it's time to get you home kid, where to you live?" Wolf asked.
"Puck lives where Puck wants to live."
"Where does your family live?"
"Puck doesn't know. Dad left Puck in daycare one day and forgot to come back. They put Puck with crazy old lady but Puck didn't like her, so Puck left." Puck said as if this was something that happened to everyone, she even did a handstand in the middle of the story.
"Of course." Wolf muttered to herself. "How long you been alone?"
Puck shrugged, "Not long. Puck likes sleeping outside, Puck just gets hungry sometimes."
"I've been alone for three weeks, and even though I like being by myself, I think you should come with me." Wolf said.
"Of course Puck was going with you, you're Puck's new friend."
"I am Wolf, by the way. Do you know where the Xavier institute is?"
"No clue," Puck answered in a singsong voice.
"Well come on, I saw a hotel sign about a block back, we'll sleep there for the night."
"Yay!" Puck said, and danced all around Wolf the entire way to the Hotel.
******************A/N- Kind of cute isn't it. (^^) All right, I really need your votes so push the little button on the left. Come on, you know you want to push it. ^o_o^