The Dragon Tamer
(*Rating may change in later chapters* PG-13 for swearing and suggestive actions and words. P/OC (a little R/B) Comes into play after X:2. What are these dreams John's been having? And who is this new girl at the old mansion? (( ' Indicates thoughts))
Disclaimer: I do NOT own the original X-Men or the topic.
Chapter 10: Into the Night
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Everybody gasped. Jubilee nearly fainted. They couldn't see Jake in the murky water at all, no one knew sure what to do. They were watching the spot when Allen let out a loud cry of horror, and before anyone could act he too was taken under. The rest huddled closer, all the girls about to cry, well. Suddenly John made a noise that sounded very much like 'argh' and he was under almost before anyone noticed it, his hand slipping out of Amanda's. She screamed.
Bobby was looking quite worried about this point. Then the same thing happened to him. All that remained were the females, four very scared females at that. All at once they were pulled under the surface. Amanda was desperately trying to swim to the surface (which was really only about two feet above her), keeping her eyes closed. She didn't want to see what was attacking her. Out of nowhere she felt herself being kissed, and her eyes shot open to reveal none other than Mr. John Allerdyce himself. She broke the kiss and tried her hardest to slap him, which turns out to be very hard to do under the water. She kicked her legs indignantly and surfaced, a very pissed off expression on her face. "That wasn't funny at all, damn it". The other girls were already up, similar looks on their faces. Within a few seconds the guys broke the surface laughing.
"You guys actually thought something was attacking us?" Jake bellowed out a laugh between words. No one answered him. They were being ignored. "Come on girls, we didn't think you would take it so seriously." Bobby puffed out his bottom lip and stared at Rogue, who for the death of her couldn't stay mad at him when he did that and he knew it. "You weren't thinking period." Jubilee retorted, staring completely the opposing direction of her boyfriend who was trying to pull the same stunt as Bobby. Eventually the girls gave in and forgave them and everyone was out the water drying off. "Hey, Jake, how did you stay underwater for that long? It must have been at least five minutes." Kitty questioned. Jake grinned, "I can control water right? Well, it just so happens that I can breathe underwater too."
"Oh." She blushed, 'I should have guessed that.' He laughed and Allen kissed her crimson cheek. "You poor thing. We really gave you all a scare huh?" Amanda laughed in response, "Yes, and if Marie hadn't given in to Bobby you four would still be in the doghouse." All the girls agreed and everyone made their way back to camp.
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Marie, Amanda, Kitty, and Jubilee were all sitting in their tent. It was about 6:00 now, and the 'tough' boys were taking a nap. Jubilee was scowling, "I can't believe we let those dorks get away with scaring us like that." Marie laughed, "I know. But what can we do?" After a few moments of serious thought, Amanda got an idea. "I know!" Everyone turned to face her. "One time in middle school I was at my friend's sleep over and during a scary movie her brother turned all the lights off during the worst part. Well, late at night we went into his room while he was sleeping and put make-up on him, nail polish too." Jubes' eyes widened and she grinned, "I brought all my stuff, nail polish and all! Plus, all the lipstick is liquid form, so it won't wake them up." Kitty and Marie looked at each other smiling as well. Pay back was going to be a bright red bitch this time around.
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An hour later the ladies were all sitting outside by the fire-pit, when the guys woke up. Each girl looked at each other and smirked. After a few moments of complete and udder silence they heard random choice words, and finally, "Amanda Orlan!", "Katherine Pryde!", "Jubilation Lee!", and "Marie D'Ancanto!" all sounded from inside the tent at the same time. All four girls attempted to keep a steady face, but doubled over once the boys came out of their tent, scowling. "We are going to go wash this off now, if you don't mind!" John spat, he did look extremely pissed.
"Wait, let us get one more look at you." Amanda looked from one to the other. John resembled a cheap hooker with his bright purple eyeshadow, bright red lipstick, hot pink blush, and of course, red nail and toe polish. Bobby was all about blue and pink. Rogue had done him up in dark blue eyeshadow, light pink lipstick (she even threw some lip gloss on him), light pink blush and blue nail and toe polish. And if Amanda wasn't mistaken, there was a pink and blue clip in his sleep-styled hair. Allen wasn't too bad; he just had light blue eyeshadow, brown lipstick, red blush, and white polish on his nails and toes. Now, they were all funny, but Jake was the real sight to see. In her seek for revenge Jubilee put a scarf around his neck, green. She put gold eyeshadow on his lids, and silver just above that, purple nail polish, yellow toe polish, brown blush, and to pull it all together, a black lipstick. She smirked as they gave the girls one more glare and sauntered over to the water bucket looking like cheap whores.
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Magneto paced back and forth. Where was she? He had sent Mystique over to get their new alliance a few hours ago. They didn't have time for all this waiting around. He had places to go, and people to kill; there was nothing in his schedule about waiting. After a few more minutes he was about to get her on the radio when she and a male visitor walked in. The man was tall, about Sabertooth's height, actually he was about the same weight as his old protector too. But looked nothing like him. No, this man was bald, had multiple tattoos, the eyes of an eagle, and natural claws to boot. "Hello Erik, good to see you finally accepted my offer. Although I still say you should have just given the girl to me when you had her in your grasp. Instead of taking her to that damned school!" He was getting upset all over again. "Calm down Leon, she will be with us soon enough. Did you bring your weapon with you?" The bald man smirked, "Of course. How could I forget him?" He whistled and a young boy came obediently in, he too was a mutant.
"This, Erik, is weapon #4." He turned to the child. "Show him your gift, now!" The young one nodded as if in a trance and began to glow, within moments he had transformed into a very large odd-looking creature. It had the head, body, front legs, and tail of a black leopard, the wings of a seriously overgrown dragon fly, and it was big enough for two people to ride on. Magneto looked him over and noticed that where the two back legs oughta be, were a very large pair of black talons. Leon clapped in its face and the boy changed back. "When will we be leaving?" The old man smiled at him, "The sooner we leave, Leon, the sooner #5 will be under your control." Said man smirked, "Then we leave now. I know exactly where they are." Leon Deranger could locate any mutant that he had inserted a chip into, the chip was just a locator. And Mystique had already placed one in Amanda. Professor X could have found it, but he had no thoughts that there was such a thing in her. Leon's 'real' name was simply put, Raptor. He had the mutation of mind control, and he was never one for letting your abilities go to waste. Magneto took one more look at Mystique, "You know your part in this correct?" She nodded a smirk finding it's way to her lips as her eyes flashed red.
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"Come on! Hurry up guys!" We find our favorite gang in the middle of a vast meadow. Surrounded by trees, with three lonely willows tree in the dead center, and a couple of bushes nearby. There is a path far to the right, and a path directly in front. The path to the right leads back to the campground, and the path in front is where they are heading. Jubilee, Jake, Kitty, and Allen are already headed towards the front path. Marie, Bobby, John, and Amanda are still by the willow tree. "Go on without us Bobby, I need to rest for a minute. We'll catch up." John informed his friend. Amanda and he stayed by the tree and Marie and Bobby ran along ahead, trying to catch up to the other four. John was toying with his lighter, as he had been for a while now. He had noticed the flame getting lower and lower, but hadn't thought to bring any fluid to fill it up with. He watched as the flame flickered and went out. He tried one more time and got the same results. 'Shit, out of fluid.' He blinked, why did that feel like deja vu?
Something ruffled in the bushes; sharply he turned his head to watch them. Why did this all seem so familiar?
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Kaylin sat at the picnic table, tapping her fingers lightly on the surface. 'What's taking them so long?'
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