A/N- Hi! ^^ Much thanx to my reviewers ^o^! Before we get on to Chapter 5,
I have chosen the candidates for the vote and what I think of the possible
relation ship. Theses two characters have been mentioned the most in the
reviews and since the plot is coming together fast, I need the result!
Lance- He's a practical joker, which would probably play well with Wolf's reserve. However, this would be a big switch from Kitty because she and Wolf are very different. Kitty is sweet, innocent, and is somewhat a girlie- girl. Wolf tends to be suspicious, looking at everything from every angle whether it be person or situation; she also can be slightly off Standish, there but not in the spotlight off to the side watching. However, she is good-hearted, mature, and would be good for temperamental Lance. Most likely, these two would gravitate towards each other out of mutual loneliness; both of their biological parents were not in the picture as they grew up and have never been accepted socially.
Logan- Most people like this choice because the fact that Sabertooth is Logan's archenemy and Wolf's biological father. These two could do well as a couple, Wolf is very mature and probably like a partner that was as well. He's a hothead, given to his emotions, and Wolf thinks everything out before she even makes the first move, another good reason for a match. I think Wolf would have no trouble getting Logan to listen to reason most of the time. I think Wolf's strength and good sense would probably attract him to her, and she would probably be attracted to his fire and hidden vulnerabilities. However, the whole Romeo/Juliet thing could lead to lots of Angst.
What's with both of them having "L" names? Psy.ops, this chapter should please u, she finally meets the x-men (x-geeks), acolytes too!
A Wild Parrot Chase:
Wolf leaned comfortably against the newsstand, out of the view of the portly female owner. Puck sat at her feet, rereading a comic book she had picked out upside down, from the back. It seemed an entirely new story that way. The day was sunny and bright with a cold breeze that licked Wolf's black locks. She pulled up the collar of her habitual overcoat to cover her sensitive, elven, ears. The cars made the usual background noise, and people walked past, just another day in their normal lives, completely ignoring the mutants in their mists for once. The sea was roaring only about a mile away, the gulls were shrieking their songs overhead, all with their distinct scents that Wolf could now recognize from miles away. Very different from the endless forest she had spent her childhood in, and knew every square inch of. Soon she would have Bayville just as well memorized.
She had been living the Brotherhood for just a little over a week. It had been very pleasant so far. The boys could be high strung, and Pietro had been getting on her nerves with his attempts to tell her what to do, but most of the time it had been rather laid back, and even fun when she was there in the evenings. , most of the time she was either in town, on the shore, or in the woods exploring and observing.
***********************Puck put down the comic book. She looked up at the sun and blinked at its brightness. 'Too bright' she thought. She looked up at Wolf, and looked right into a painting that had won a local art show that was featured on the cover. A pensive looking teenage girl peering into a handheld mirror. 'Yuck.' Puck thought and began moving forward to put the comic back and fetch a new one, when she saw something wonderful across the street. A blue macaw perched proudly on the shoulder of a short little Chinese man that was wider than he was tall.
"Oh la la." Puck commented looking at the soft azure feathers and the vibrant yellow under body, with intelligent eyes in a white face. Puck dashed across without much mind of the traffic, and in a breath was directly next to the man who was only an inch taller than she was.
"The bird is really pretty." Puck told the man solemnly. "Can I pet her?"
The man was already staring at the strange girl who had suddenly appeared next to him. She was either a mutant, or one of those punk kids, it was hard to tell with these crazy teenage fashions. Nevertheless, he considered himself not to be a prejudiced man, and tried not to behave like one. Everyone should enjoy Xing Mei's beauty.
"Of course. Pet her gently on the head, she enjoys that." The man told her, grinning. Puck did as he said; her long fingers caressed the green feathers of Xing Mei's head. The parrot inclined her head, letting out a soft purring noise and grated her beak.
"She likes you." The man told puck, and Puck smiled. She liked the parrot. The peace of the moment was broke when someone dropped something heavy close by, Puck startled involuntarily releasing a small spark of energy right onto Xing Mei.
Xing Mei let out a terrible shriek, opened her blue and turquoise wings, and bolted for the heavens. "Oh no! Xing Mei!" the man cried.
"Don't worry, Puck will get her!' Puck said, already running after the terrified parrot, knowing what had scared it. "Xing Mei! Xing Mei!" she called after the overhead shape.
*****************'Jesus, this woman doesn't like anything.' Wolf commented in her head. 'She gave a C to "The Hours" that was a good movie, long but still good. That was the last movie Lorene and I saw together.' Wolf raised her head in surprise; they had been gone for only one month. It seemed longer, like ten years. In her mind, she had already placed her "Wolf-child phase", what she called her time with Simon and Lorene because of their pet name for her, into her past. Completely gone and only accessible by memories. She swallowed 'so much has changed' she realized. She folded the newspaper and looked down to where she thought Puck was.
'What the?' she looked right to left, circled the newsstand and looked down the street. She shrugged; Puck had done this twice before and both times had reappeared at the house at exactly six pm.
"You had better be home at six and not have a mob chasing you." Wolf told the non-present Puck. She caught the scent of Hotdogs coming off Frank's cart in the park, sizzling in their own fat, with just the right seasonings. 'Lunchtime.' Wolf thought happily, placing the newspaper back in its rightful spot and began walking west to Puck's southward route.
******************"Come down please. Puck is sorry she shocked Xing Mei." Puck pleaded with the unsympathetic bird perched out of reach on a street side Crepe Myrtle. Xing Mei blinked her eyes, and decided the girl needed some more punishment and flew to begin the chase all over again. Puck let out an exasperated grunt; she had done this thrice before. She had perched on a street lamp, store sign, and a third story windowsill and gloated at Puck. Puck thought she didn't like the bird so much anymore, but she felt bad for the old man, so she kept following. After the chase had gone for another block and a turn, Xing Mei felt the need to rest once again, and chose a telephone wire as her perch. Puck let out a little squeal of horror, if one bolt of electricity traveled through that wire, it would be all over for Xing Mei.
She needed a way to get Xing Mei off that wire. She looked all around the street for a long stick. Her yellow eyes fell upon a metal staff that leaned against the side of a store wall. Puck ran and quickly snatched the staff and bolted back over to Xing Mei. In her haste never hearing the statement, "Hey! Dat's Remy's staff!"
Carefully avoiding hitting the wire herself, she thrust the rod up towards Xing Mei. It was enough for the bird to see the staff coming towards her, and she was on the run once again. Before puck could charge after her, someone grabbed the top of the staff.
"What do you think you're doing Sheila?" a man queried her. A very strange looking man, his hair was the perfect color of orange fire and Puck could smell faint traces of gasoline clinging to him.
"Puck is not Sheila." Puck informed him, "Puck is Puck."
"You look like a Sheila to me, what are you doing with the staff?" he asked again. Puck was getting nervous, she didn't know whom Sheila was, or why these men were looking for her, but Puck most certainly wasn't going to get in trouble for her. Meanwhile Xing Mei was getting farther and farther away. The two other men came up from behind their friend, and the memory of the alley replayed in puck's mind. Wolf wasn't here to help her Puck had to defend herself. Before Colossus or more likely Gambit could get in any questions of their own, puck closed her eyes and summoned all of her energy.
When she opened them, the fire haired man was slumped against the wall, stunned. His friends gawked at her in amazement. Puck looked in amazement as well, at how far her blast had thrown him. Then she remembered about Xing Mei and how angry these men where going to be when they came out of shock. She ran in the direction Xing Mei had headed as fast as her thin legs could carry her. She kept the staff and held onto it even tighter when she heard the sound of their pursuit.
********************"Hey Rogue over here." Kitty called to the pretty gothic girl. Rogue walked over to the booth in the small pizza parlor. Rogue, Kitty, Scott, Jean, and Kurt had all agreed to meet here today. The original team had had less time to spend together with all that had happened. (A/N-Evan has joined the morlocks at this time.) This pizza parlor was not frequented very often by the Bayville high school community and was the perfect place for five mutant teens to eat lunch and just hang. Even wary Rogue had obligated to come. She had become even more lonesome since the real indemnity of Risty had been revealed.
"Hi ya'll." She greeted, and slipped next to her adoptive brother who was already debating with Scott that ten pizzas was not too much.
"Did you hear?" Kitty asked Jean and Rogue, "that Duncan got totally dumped by Michele?" Jean nodded, and Rogue rolled her eyes.
"I think he needed to be taken down a notch, not that Michele is much better." Jean answered.
Just then, Puck whizzed by the pizza shop chanting "Xing Mei! Xing Mei!" with the Bo staff still in hand. This raised a few eyebrows, but when all three of the acolytes ran by soon after, questions were raised.
"What in the hell?" Rogue asked.
"Do I tink I zaw what I tink I zaw?" Kurt asked.
"Was that like a kid?" Kitty asked.
"Looked like it. What do the acolytes want with a kid?" Scott wondered.
"Should we follow them?" Jean asked Scott.
"I guess so; the kid might be in trouble." Scott answered, and so the x-men were now included in great hunt of Xing Mei.
*****************Wolf stretched out on the warm bank of the pond, sunning her full belly of hotdogs. The grass smelled sweet only cut one day ago, the ducks chatted with each other, and the frolicking left Wolf alone enjoying the sounds of their play. She was satisfied, happy even; she had long since learned to appreciate such moments. The peace soothed her so much that she even began to doze a little. However, the fluttering of wings interrupted her nap.
Wolf opened her eyes and sat up just as Xing Mei zoomed past; flying so low that Wolf felt, the silken feathers caress her cheek. "Gah!" she yelped in surprise.
"Xing Mei come to Puck!" Puck yelled close behind. Wolf instinctively reached out and grasped the girl's shirt before she stepped off the bank.
"Planning on a swim?" Wolf asked her, eyeing the Bo staff curiously.
"Wolf!" Puck said in surprise. "Puck has to catch Xing Mei!"
"Who's Xing Mei?" Wolf asked her ears pricked as she heard the parrot that had grazed her before land in an oak tree about twenty feet away.
"Dere is the kid!" a masculine voice declared. Wolf turned around and saw three young men not to far away. Obviously mutants, one reeked of gasoline and had hair like fire, Wolf could hear static electricity cracking in his hair. 'Did Puck shock him?' she wondered. Another was tall with brown hair and goatee, his eyes his most obvious mutant feature red irises in black eyes. He smelled like cheap cologne and bourbon, Wolf snorted 'a bad boy' she thought. The other was large and seemed to be of eastern European in origin his facial feature sharp and rugged. Wolf smelled metal coming off him, but she couldn't figure out why.
"Friends of yours?" she asked Puck dryly when she saw that their attention was on her.
Puck shook her head, "They are looking for Sheila, not Puck." She told Wolf. Wolf raised an eyebrow. 'Are they the acolytes or part of the x-men?' she asked herself. She was soon answered when the x-men finally caught up with their quarry.
"You had better leave that kid alone!" Scott called to his enemies not even seeing Wolf and Puck sitting on the bank. 'X-men, there aren't that many acolytes.' Wolf figured looking at the five youths. She cocked her head realizing, '" leave the kid alone?"' do they want to hurt Puck?
"Calm down, Remy just wants his staff back." The bourbon reeking one replied." 'Owever if it is a battle y'want, Remy can provide." he finished pulling out a playing card.
Wolf looked at the staff in Puck's hands. She sighed, lifted the staff out of Puck's hands, and held it above her head. "Excuse me, is this your staff?"
The Cajun turned around to look at her. "Oui."
Wolf aimed and threw the staff so that it dug into the ground and stood up straight at the Cajun's feet.
"Who are you?" asked a red haired girl from the x-men side.
"I am Wolf Tillister, and she's Puck the Shocker." Wolf said rising up and using Puck's chosen name for herself.
"Why did you attack me Sheila?" Pyro demanded of Puck.
"Puck is not Sheila! Puck is PUCK!" Puck shrieked at the end of her rope with this thickhead.
"Mon petite," Remy said chuckling "He calls all the filles "Sheila" because he is from Australia."
"Filles?" Puck wondered.
"Fille and Sheila mean girl in their dialects." Wolf clarified, amused herself.
"I still want to know why..Puck attacked me." Pyro insisted.
"Probably because you frightened her." Wolf said defensively. She did not trust these people after hearing what the Brotherhood had to say about them.
"I just asked her why she had the staff!" John cried.
"She was probably scared of your looks, you're pretty scary looking." Kitty teased.
"Shut up!" he snapped back at her, he had just been thrown into a wall and was not in a good mood.
"The x-men 'ave no say in tis matter." Remy declared, charging up the playing card again.
"We do as long as you guys are bullying other people." Scott shot back.
"We aren't bullying anyone; you x-men are just being nosey." Pyro said, flaring his flames.
"Mon ami is right, y'are just looking for a fight." Remy agreed throwing his exploding card as a bluff that was answered by an optic blast from Scott.
"We should leave." Wolf told Puck, she was not about to be swept up into a petty rivalry fight. Even if she and the acolytes could be considered allies.
"We need to get Xing Mei." Puck informed her.
"You never told me who Xing Mei is." Wolf told her cringing at the thought of what other trouble Puck had created. Just then, an exploding card landed a foot away from Wolf and Puck originally aimed at the teleporting Kurt.
"That's too close for comfort." Wolf yelled when the card exploded.
"Bitte frauline." Kurt said after he appeared next to them, startling Wolf a little. "Maybe vee zee you again under more..pleasant circumstances?"
Wolf took in the furry azure mutant and was surprised at the mirth in his eyes. "Perhaps." She said, looking at the other seven squabbling mutants.
Kurt nodded, "Tuschus." He said and teleported back into the battle. Wolf shook her head, 'I use to think I was nutty, but these people just charge into battle in a public park, alot apparently.' Wolf thought, looking at the scattering humans, not screaming but peeved that their picnics had been ruined.
"That's Xing Mei." Puck told her, tugging at Wolf's cuff bringing her away from the skirmish.
Wolf followed Puck's finger and saw that Xing Mei was the parrot from earlier, watching the battle with interest. When they walked up to the tree, Xing Mei with all the grace and dignity of a geisha landed on Puck's shoulder, she had seen enough for one day.
"Tuck her under your arm." Wolf instructed Puck. 'We are getting out of here. I already hear the sirens."
Puck did as Wolf told her to do, and Wolf motioned for Puck to get on her back, piggyback style. "I suggest you guys get out of here! " Wolf yelled as loud as she could, with Puck peering over her shoulder. "I can hear the sirens in the distance and they are coming fast!"
The battle stopped immediately, but Wolf was already halfway out of the park before anyone began to leave. Her impossibly strong legs carrying her way from the police and towards the small Chinese man who was still on Pine street, hoping that Puck would return with Xing Mei.
**************A/N- Hoped you liked the chap! I liked writing it! (Puck can really make trouble, can't she? ^^) I think I didn't do Remy's accent very well, so if someone would give me some pointers, I would really appreciate it.;) Time for another vote, I can take the story two ways now. Should Wolf confront the acolytes alone with puck alone on the street? On the other hand, should the second encounter take place at the house in the company of the brotherhood? (Reasons would be nice! ^^) Do not forget the vote at the top! Lance or Logan?
Lance- He's a practical joker, which would probably play well with Wolf's reserve. However, this would be a big switch from Kitty because she and Wolf are very different. Kitty is sweet, innocent, and is somewhat a girlie- girl. Wolf tends to be suspicious, looking at everything from every angle whether it be person or situation; she also can be slightly off Standish, there but not in the spotlight off to the side watching. However, she is good-hearted, mature, and would be good for temperamental Lance. Most likely, these two would gravitate towards each other out of mutual loneliness; both of their biological parents were not in the picture as they grew up and have never been accepted socially.
Logan- Most people like this choice because the fact that Sabertooth is Logan's archenemy and Wolf's biological father. These two could do well as a couple, Wolf is very mature and probably like a partner that was as well. He's a hothead, given to his emotions, and Wolf thinks everything out before she even makes the first move, another good reason for a match. I think Wolf would have no trouble getting Logan to listen to reason most of the time. I think Wolf's strength and good sense would probably attract him to her, and she would probably be attracted to his fire and hidden vulnerabilities. However, the whole Romeo/Juliet thing could lead to lots of Angst.
What's with both of them having "L" names? Psy.ops, this chapter should please u, she finally meets the x-men (x-geeks), acolytes too!
A Wild Parrot Chase:
Wolf leaned comfortably against the newsstand, out of the view of the portly female owner. Puck sat at her feet, rereading a comic book she had picked out upside down, from the back. It seemed an entirely new story that way. The day was sunny and bright with a cold breeze that licked Wolf's black locks. She pulled up the collar of her habitual overcoat to cover her sensitive, elven, ears. The cars made the usual background noise, and people walked past, just another day in their normal lives, completely ignoring the mutants in their mists for once. The sea was roaring only about a mile away, the gulls were shrieking their songs overhead, all with their distinct scents that Wolf could now recognize from miles away. Very different from the endless forest she had spent her childhood in, and knew every square inch of. Soon she would have Bayville just as well memorized.
She had been living the Brotherhood for just a little over a week. It had been very pleasant so far. The boys could be high strung, and Pietro had been getting on her nerves with his attempts to tell her what to do, but most of the time it had been rather laid back, and even fun when she was there in the evenings. , most of the time she was either in town, on the shore, or in the woods exploring and observing.
***********************Puck put down the comic book. She looked up at the sun and blinked at its brightness. 'Too bright' she thought. She looked up at Wolf, and looked right into a painting that had won a local art show that was featured on the cover. A pensive looking teenage girl peering into a handheld mirror. 'Yuck.' Puck thought and began moving forward to put the comic back and fetch a new one, when she saw something wonderful across the street. A blue macaw perched proudly on the shoulder of a short little Chinese man that was wider than he was tall.
"Oh la la." Puck commented looking at the soft azure feathers and the vibrant yellow under body, with intelligent eyes in a white face. Puck dashed across without much mind of the traffic, and in a breath was directly next to the man who was only an inch taller than she was.
"The bird is really pretty." Puck told the man solemnly. "Can I pet her?"
The man was already staring at the strange girl who had suddenly appeared next to him. She was either a mutant, or one of those punk kids, it was hard to tell with these crazy teenage fashions. Nevertheless, he considered himself not to be a prejudiced man, and tried not to behave like one. Everyone should enjoy Xing Mei's beauty.
"Of course. Pet her gently on the head, she enjoys that." The man told her, grinning. Puck did as he said; her long fingers caressed the green feathers of Xing Mei's head. The parrot inclined her head, letting out a soft purring noise and grated her beak.
"She likes you." The man told puck, and Puck smiled. She liked the parrot. The peace of the moment was broke when someone dropped something heavy close by, Puck startled involuntarily releasing a small spark of energy right onto Xing Mei.
Xing Mei let out a terrible shriek, opened her blue and turquoise wings, and bolted for the heavens. "Oh no! Xing Mei!" the man cried.
"Don't worry, Puck will get her!' Puck said, already running after the terrified parrot, knowing what had scared it. "Xing Mei! Xing Mei!" she called after the overhead shape.
*****************'Jesus, this woman doesn't like anything.' Wolf commented in her head. 'She gave a C to "The Hours" that was a good movie, long but still good. That was the last movie Lorene and I saw together.' Wolf raised her head in surprise; they had been gone for only one month. It seemed longer, like ten years. In her mind, she had already placed her "Wolf-child phase", what she called her time with Simon and Lorene because of their pet name for her, into her past. Completely gone and only accessible by memories. She swallowed 'so much has changed' she realized. She folded the newspaper and looked down to where she thought Puck was.
'What the?' she looked right to left, circled the newsstand and looked down the street. She shrugged; Puck had done this twice before and both times had reappeared at the house at exactly six pm.
"You had better be home at six and not have a mob chasing you." Wolf told the non-present Puck. She caught the scent of Hotdogs coming off Frank's cart in the park, sizzling in their own fat, with just the right seasonings. 'Lunchtime.' Wolf thought happily, placing the newspaper back in its rightful spot and began walking west to Puck's southward route.
******************"Come down please. Puck is sorry she shocked Xing Mei." Puck pleaded with the unsympathetic bird perched out of reach on a street side Crepe Myrtle. Xing Mei blinked her eyes, and decided the girl needed some more punishment and flew to begin the chase all over again. Puck let out an exasperated grunt; she had done this thrice before. She had perched on a street lamp, store sign, and a third story windowsill and gloated at Puck. Puck thought she didn't like the bird so much anymore, but she felt bad for the old man, so she kept following. After the chase had gone for another block and a turn, Xing Mei felt the need to rest once again, and chose a telephone wire as her perch. Puck let out a little squeal of horror, if one bolt of electricity traveled through that wire, it would be all over for Xing Mei.
She needed a way to get Xing Mei off that wire. She looked all around the street for a long stick. Her yellow eyes fell upon a metal staff that leaned against the side of a store wall. Puck ran and quickly snatched the staff and bolted back over to Xing Mei. In her haste never hearing the statement, "Hey! Dat's Remy's staff!"
Carefully avoiding hitting the wire herself, she thrust the rod up towards Xing Mei. It was enough for the bird to see the staff coming towards her, and she was on the run once again. Before puck could charge after her, someone grabbed the top of the staff.
"What do you think you're doing Sheila?" a man queried her. A very strange looking man, his hair was the perfect color of orange fire and Puck could smell faint traces of gasoline clinging to him.
"Puck is not Sheila." Puck informed him, "Puck is Puck."
"You look like a Sheila to me, what are you doing with the staff?" he asked again. Puck was getting nervous, she didn't know whom Sheila was, or why these men were looking for her, but Puck most certainly wasn't going to get in trouble for her. Meanwhile Xing Mei was getting farther and farther away. The two other men came up from behind their friend, and the memory of the alley replayed in puck's mind. Wolf wasn't here to help her Puck had to defend herself. Before Colossus or more likely Gambit could get in any questions of their own, puck closed her eyes and summoned all of her energy.
When she opened them, the fire haired man was slumped against the wall, stunned. His friends gawked at her in amazement. Puck looked in amazement as well, at how far her blast had thrown him. Then she remembered about Xing Mei and how angry these men where going to be when they came out of shock. She ran in the direction Xing Mei had headed as fast as her thin legs could carry her. She kept the staff and held onto it even tighter when she heard the sound of their pursuit.
********************"Hey Rogue over here." Kitty called to the pretty gothic girl. Rogue walked over to the booth in the small pizza parlor. Rogue, Kitty, Scott, Jean, and Kurt had all agreed to meet here today. The original team had had less time to spend together with all that had happened. (A/N-Evan has joined the morlocks at this time.) This pizza parlor was not frequented very often by the Bayville high school community and was the perfect place for five mutant teens to eat lunch and just hang. Even wary Rogue had obligated to come. She had become even more lonesome since the real indemnity of Risty had been revealed.
"Hi ya'll." She greeted, and slipped next to her adoptive brother who was already debating with Scott that ten pizzas was not too much.
"Did you hear?" Kitty asked Jean and Rogue, "that Duncan got totally dumped by Michele?" Jean nodded, and Rogue rolled her eyes.
"I think he needed to be taken down a notch, not that Michele is much better." Jean answered.
Just then, Puck whizzed by the pizza shop chanting "Xing Mei! Xing Mei!" with the Bo staff still in hand. This raised a few eyebrows, but when all three of the acolytes ran by soon after, questions were raised.
"What in the hell?" Rogue asked.
"Do I tink I zaw what I tink I zaw?" Kurt asked.
"Was that like a kid?" Kitty asked.
"Looked like it. What do the acolytes want with a kid?" Scott wondered.
"Should we follow them?" Jean asked Scott.
"I guess so; the kid might be in trouble." Scott answered, and so the x-men were now included in great hunt of Xing Mei.
*****************Wolf stretched out on the warm bank of the pond, sunning her full belly of hotdogs. The grass smelled sweet only cut one day ago, the ducks chatted with each other, and the frolicking left Wolf alone enjoying the sounds of their play. She was satisfied, happy even; she had long since learned to appreciate such moments. The peace soothed her so much that she even began to doze a little. However, the fluttering of wings interrupted her nap.
Wolf opened her eyes and sat up just as Xing Mei zoomed past; flying so low that Wolf felt, the silken feathers caress her cheek. "Gah!" she yelped in surprise.
"Xing Mei come to Puck!" Puck yelled close behind. Wolf instinctively reached out and grasped the girl's shirt before she stepped off the bank.
"Planning on a swim?" Wolf asked her, eyeing the Bo staff curiously.
"Wolf!" Puck said in surprise. "Puck has to catch Xing Mei!"
"Who's Xing Mei?" Wolf asked her ears pricked as she heard the parrot that had grazed her before land in an oak tree about twenty feet away.
"Dere is the kid!" a masculine voice declared. Wolf turned around and saw three young men not to far away. Obviously mutants, one reeked of gasoline and had hair like fire, Wolf could hear static electricity cracking in his hair. 'Did Puck shock him?' she wondered. Another was tall with brown hair and goatee, his eyes his most obvious mutant feature red irises in black eyes. He smelled like cheap cologne and bourbon, Wolf snorted 'a bad boy' she thought. The other was large and seemed to be of eastern European in origin his facial feature sharp and rugged. Wolf smelled metal coming off him, but she couldn't figure out why.
"Friends of yours?" she asked Puck dryly when she saw that their attention was on her.
Puck shook her head, "They are looking for Sheila, not Puck." She told Wolf. Wolf raised an eyebrow. 'Are they the acolytes or part of the x-men?' she asked herself. She was soon answered when the x-men finally caught up with their quarry.
"You had better leave that kid alone!" Scott called to his enemies not even seeing Wolf and Puck sitting on the bank. 'X-men, there aren't that many acolytes.' Wolf figured looking at the five youths. She cocked her head realizing, '" leave the kid alone?"' do they want to hurt Puck?
"Calm down, Remy just wants his staff back." The bourbon reeking one replied." 'Owever if it is a battle y'want, Remy can provide." he finished pulling out a playing card.
Wolf looked at the staff in Puck's hands. She sighed, lifted the staff out of Puck's hands, and held it above her head. "Excuse me, is this your staff?"
The Cajun turned around to look at her. "Oui."
Wolf aimed and threw the staff so that it dug into the ground and stood up straight at the Cajun's feet.
"Who are you?" asked a red haired girl from the x-men side.
"I am Wolf Tillister, and she's Puck the Shocker." Wolf said rising up and using Puck's chosen name for herself.
"Why did you attack me Sheila?" Pyro demanded of Puck.
"Puck is not Sheila! Puck is PUCK!" Puck shrieked at the end of her rope with this thickhead.
"Mon petite," Remy said chuckling "He calls all the filles "Sheila" because he is from Australia."
"Filles?" Puck wondered.
"Fille and Sheila mean girl in their dialects." Wolf clarified, amused herself.
"I still want to know why..Puck attacked me." Pyro insisted.
"Probably because you frightened her." Wolf said defensively. She did not trust these people after hearing what the Brotherhood had to say about them.
"I just asked her why she had the staff!" John cried.
"She was probably scared of your looks, you're pretty scary looking." Kitty teased.
"Shut up!" he snapped back at her, he had just been thrown into a wall and was not in a good mood.
"The x-men 'ave no say in tis matter." Remy declared, charging up the playing card again.
"We do as long as you guys are bullying other people." Scott shot back.
"We aren't bullying anyone; you x-men are just being nosey." Pyro said, flaring his flames.
"Mon ami is right, y'are just looking for a fight." Remy agreed throwing his exploding card as a bluff that was answered by an optic blast from Scott.
"We should leave." Wolf told Puck, she was not about to be swept up into a petty rivalry fight. Even if she and the acolytes could be considered allies.
"We need to get Xing Mei." Puck informed her.
"You never told me who Xing Mei is." Wolf told her cringing at the thought of what other trouble Puck had created. Just then, an exploding card landed a foot away from Wolf and Puck originally aimed at the teleporting Kurt.
"That's too close for comfort." Wolf yelled when the card exploded.
"Bitte frauline." Kurt said after he appeared next to them, startling Wolf a little. "Maybe vee zee you again under more..pleasant circumstances?"
Wolf took in the furry azure mutant and was surprised at the mirth in his eyes. "Perhaps." She said, looking at the other seven squabbling mutants.
Kurt nodded, "Tuschus." He said and teleported back into the battle. Wolf shook her head, 'I use to think I was nutty, but these people just charge into battle in a public park, alot apparently.' Wolf thought, looking at the scattering humans, not screaming but peeved that their picnics had been ruined.
"That's Xing Mei." Puck told her, tugging at Wolf's cuff bringing her away from the skirmish.
Wolf followed Puck's finger and saw that Xing Mei was the parrot from earlier, watching the battle with interest. When they walked up to the tree, Xing Mei with all the grace and dignity of a geisha landed on Puck's shoulder, she had seen enough for one day.
"Tuck her under your arm." Wolf instructed Puck. 'We are getting out of here. I already hear the sirens."
Puck did as Wolf told her to do, and Wolf motioned for Puck to get on her back, piggyback style. "I suggest you guys get out of here! " Wolf yelled as loud as she could, with Puck peering over her shoulder. "I can hear the sirens in the distance and they are coming fast!"
The battle stopped immediately, but Wolf was already halfway out of the park before anyone began to leave. Her impossibly strong legs carrying her way from the police and towards the small Chinese man who was still on Pine street, hoping that Puck would return with Xing Mei.
**************A/N- Hoped you liked the chap! I liked writing it! (Puck can really make trouble, can't she? ^^) I think I didn't do Remy's accent very well, so if someone would give me some pointers, I would really appreciate it.;) Time for another vote, I can take the story two ways now. Should Wolf confront the acolytes alone with puck alone on the street? On the other hand, should the second encounter take place at the house in the company of the brotherhood? (Reasons would be nice! ^^) Do not forget the vote at the top! Lance or Logan?