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The Clydesdales
Chapter 13: We Can Talk!
Rogue wanted to run up to her sibling and envelop him in a hug. But there were two little problems she had.
One, her mutant powers say no.
Two, she's standing on her hands.
"Kurt! Are yah alraght? Where were yah all this while?" Rogue ran up to Nightcrawler. Kurt gave a weak smile, "I vas followving you all."
"Yah what?!" Rogue gaped. "Why tha hell didn't yah show yahself??"
"Well, I needed to see if zis Remy guy was trustvorthy, and so far, he's fine."
"Gawd, Kurt. Yah got me worried all tha time. How are yah? Yah okay?"
Kurt laughed and replied, "Yea yea, I'm okay. I'm just tired of transporting continuously to follow you all." Rogue smiled, "Well, I'm glad yah're alraght. C'mon, let's go talk to tha others."
Kurt nodded and followed his sister into the farm.
Todd was letting himself air-dry in the wind as he sat under the large moon. The cool night breeze made his wet skin colder, but he didn't really care.
He was getting more worried as time slipped by, and he wondered how the others were doing in Kar's castle.
Kar. Todd hated the wizard ever since he saw the man. He couldn't really remember much about Kar's face, but it had "Mutants don't deserve to be called humans" written all over it.
Todd heard something move behind him and whipped his head around.
Remy.
"Hey. Enjoying de moon?"
Todd would have said something along the lines of "I wish, yo." if it hadn't been for this stupid can't-speak thing.
Remy just continued, "Remy used to look at de moon a lot."
This got Todd looking up at the crescent shape floating up there in the dark sky. "Me too…" He said, although he knew Remy couldn't hear him.
"Strange why many people don pay attention to it. De most everyone says is dat it gives light at night. But dey don notice how beautiful it is." Remy kept gazing up at the white frame, like someone was up there flashing his or her smile at them.
"I know…" Todd said to himself again.
"Looks like yer scared or something. Is it Kar?" Remy turned and looked at the Clydesdale.
Todd nodded and said to himself again, "Gee, how did you guess."
He waited for Remy to say something else but all that followed was silence. He turned toward the mutant, and raised a brow.
Remy was staring back at Todd, gaping.
"What?" Todd said, although he didn't think Remy would hear.
"You… you…"
"What?"
"Can't you hear?"
"Hear what?"
"We're having a freakin conversation!"
"Yea, so?"
Then Todd realized what was going on, "I can talk, yo!"
Remy smiled and nodded, "Thought you should know."
"How come? I don't get it…" Todd mused to himself, "Why would Kar do that?"
Remy thought for a while, then finally shrugged, "Dunno." Todd was still deep in thought, so Remy said, "Well, since you can talk, Remy's pretty sure the rest can."
Todd looked up and smiled, "Hey, yea! Let's go talk to them, yo!"
Remy calmed the Clydesdale down and said, "But first thing's first. Remy still don know yer name."
Todd sat back down and chirped, "Todd. Umn, or Toad."
Remy smiled, "Ok Todd. And can you tell Remy what happened before all dis? Remy really need to know…"
Todd was sullen again, but replied softly, "We... we got caught."
"Who is de 'we'?"
"All of us, and some other mutants. Ya see, Kar uses mutants as experiments, and turn them into animals and other stuff, dunno why. Most of them died, and we formed this group of mutants that wanna stop him, and we invaded his Castle thing to stop him."
"Oh…"
"Yea, but then we didn't really make it. He won and caught us, I think it was with his magic or something, and then he used us as his lab rats and put some kinda spell on us, and so far, we're his first experiments that worked."
Remy felt sick, hearing about humans, a wizard no less, experimenting on mutants. And the worse part was hearing that most of them died. "Can you remember where de Castle is?"
Todd shook his head, "Nup… And the rest can't either. Lance thinks- "
"Lance? That's Avalanche, right?"
"Yea… he thinks the Kar dude wiped out our minds."
"Oh, well, Remy not surprised if he did."
"Yea… Hey! You wanna go talk to the others now?!" Remy could tell that Todd obviously didn't want to talk about the subject anymore, so he nodded and followed the bouncing Clydesdale back to the barn.
"We can talk yo!" Todd called out as he leapt through the barn doors.
"And you even talk cute!!" Myra ran up to him and hugged him.
"Argh!!" Todd tried to squeeze out of her tight grasp but to no avail.
The other Clydesdales were laughing, and Remy turned to them. Obviously, they had all discovered their new ability to communicate with humans, but he realized there was something else new in the group.
"Nightcrawler?"
The Demon Clydesdale looked at him, "Umn… Hi?"
"How did you get here?"
The paint mare walked up, "He's been following us all tha while." Her voice was thick with a southern accent, and she seemed like someone not many people would fool with.
"Oh, why?"
Nightcrawler explained what happened, and Remy was surprised at first, but he understood the Clydesdale's reasons for not trusting him.
"And you're de Rogue, right?" He turned to the pinto. What's your powers? It can't be super speed."
She paused for a while, "Ah… Ah can absorb people's memories, and for mutants, their powers."
"Oh." Remy nodded, "Well, Todd here told me about what happened before, and that you guys can't remember a thing about where Kar's castle is, right Todd?"
"Ack!!" Todd yelped, still trying to squirm his way out of Myra's hug.
"Well, I still think the Kor guy wiped our memory out." The dun-colored mustang spoke up. His voice sounded like it belonged to a leader's, and Remy wouldn't be surprised if the Clydesdale was in charge. But there was also traces of a hot temper there.
"Kar, Lance. It's KAR." Quicksilver spoke up. A fast talker, no doubt quick at retorts.
"But Alvers does have a point." Spyke said.
"No one disagreed with Lance in the first place." Quicksilver pointed out.
"I know… I just… Shuddup Maximoff."
"Okay, okay. Now how bout y'all go trot of to bed." Harold said. "Myra'll cook you some pancakes in the morning."
"Horses don't eat pancakes, you old fool." Myra said.
"They do! Remember little Chelsea? I gave that horse some pancakes and she seemed fine after that."
"Well, that's probably the reason why she died the next day!"
"She died?"
"Alright, alright. Let's all got to sleep." Remy said, as he limped toward the barn doors, followed by Harold and Myra.
"You all get some rest. We'll stay here a while tomorrow, but Remy think we may have to get moving soon."
End of chapter 13
A/N: Argh!! I don't like this chapter. I wanted Toddy to kinda think to himself about what happened last time they got caught, but I also wanted them to start being able to talk to Remy, cuz he needs to know stuff… :P So I came up with this stupid thing!! And Nightie's re-appearance was so… abrupt?? AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! And no, I don't know what's up with the pancakes…
