Who Ever Said That Cat's Don't Like Water?
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(Sorry about the mixup with the repeating chapters... I loaded the wrong one. Have chapter 5= chapter4 and so on is really confusing. I regret naming the first chapter the introduction. ^_^;;)
Chapter4
Friday Morning at the Brotherhood House...
"Yo, you really blew it with Kitty," Toad was laying on the couch reading a fishing magazine. Toad was with Lance when they were out looking for the "decedent" guy. Lance had told him to hide out in the bushes while he talked to Kitty, except Lance had ran off after seeing some other mutant, completely forgetting about Toad.
"Stop rubbing it in ok! SO I got a little cocky, so what! If she doesn't like it then I could care less." Lance had been touchy ever since he had gotten back from the incident. He was determined to fight it out with that guy who had showed up, no matter what.
"Yeah, wouldn't be so bad if that guy hadn't scared you off. After you left I caught them making googly eyes at each other. Not surprising, he IS a lot better looking than you after all." Toad stopped laughing as the house started to shake.
"Hey, hey! Take it easy! It's not your fault you weren't born with natural beauty like me," Pietro said as he was leaning on the doorway listening to the conversation, "You really screwed up this time. I mean, I could handle you or me getting Kitty, but some guy we don't even know? I'm not about to let that happen, if you know what I mean."
"Then your gonna help me demolish him?" Lance asked hopefully.
"Only to get back our pretty kitty, after that you can consider me your love rival again." Pietro sped off, out of the house leaving Lance dumbstruck and Toad rolling his eyes.
"Pietro's too flamboyant, yo." Toad commented as Lance sluggishly made his way upstairs knowing that he would only be defeating the lesser of two evils/rivals by getting rid of that other guy, once they did that he would still have Pietro to deal with, and Pietro always got the girl he wanted. Toad could hear some obscenities being mumbled from the stairs.
Xavier's office...
"Any luck so far professor?" Luke sat with Logan, Storm and Xavier in his office. Storm was talking to the professor about her search results and wanted to know the results of the other's.
"I'm afraid not Storm, Jean seems to still be our only candidate, and yet I am still not sure it is her. Indeed her powers are strong, but something doesn't seem right about it. What do you think Luke?" The Professor looked over the reserved boy. He seemed quite brave but the professor could tell that he was just trying to hide his insecurities. And no wonder, to be in charge of such a great responsibility at 17 is a large burden for one so young to carry.
"I...I would like to hold onto the amulet," He seemed almost frightened to ask.
"No way! How could we be sure you wouldn't just hand it over to Magneto?!" Logan was now standing over Luke with his fists clenched.
"Logan, please still down," Xavier waited for him to be seated before continuing, "You want it, in hopes that it will aid you in finding the decedent correct?" Luke nodded, "Then I will entrust you with it" The professor began to open a drawer that contained the amulet.
"No, I don't trust him at all!" Logan started to protest again but was stopped by Xavier.
"He has been trained to protect the amulet, I would trust him more with the amulet than I would myself. I believe in him." And with that he turned to Luke, "Do what you must, I hope you find the heir soon." Luke nodded once more, took the amulet and walked out the door leaving Logan quite upset. Luke wasn't too worried though because already he felt the amulet tugging him in a certain direction.
At Lookout Point..
Kitty was sitting at the lookout point where Scott often drove his car. She found it to be a very nostalgic place. She started to remember everything she and the others had gone through. They had fought hard and struggled. Kitty remembered when the world first found out about mutants and all the torment that had followed. Finally things were starting to settle down and humans were starting to except them, no questions asked, but then this amulet thing came up. She was starting to enjoy the peace and quiet, but the thought of Magneto becoming a strong enemy again threatened her present happiness. She only hoped that Luke would find the heir quickly. Even though they had only been searching a few days, it seemed like forever.
She hadn't seen Luke since the day before, he had been in a meeting with the professor when she left. Kitty did want to see him though. 'As much as I want this all to be over with, I am afraid that when it is, he will leave. Why should I feel like that though? I mean, I've only known the guy a couple days! And I hardly even know him. He's so mysterious, I think he could be here a month without me finding anything out about him. But still... I feel so strange when I'm with him. I feel safe and secure. I guess I don't want that to go away' Her thoughts were broken when she heard a rustling sound behind her.
"Here, kitty kitty," Pietro and Lance were grinning as they stepped out from behind some trees. "Where is the pretty boy I heard about? Well he cant be as good looking as me of course."
"He's not here, so you might as well just go home." She pointed at the way they came.
"You're breakin' my heart Kitty! Why do you have to act that way. Don't you like me?" Pietro stepped a bit closer.
"I'm not about to be one of your many girlfriends, what would I be... number 5 this week?"
"Um.... actually now that Susan moved, you can be number four." Lance chuckled at Pietro because he knew that he was completely serious. How one guy could be that lucky with the ladies he would never know.
"In your dreams!" Kitty glared in their direction.
"Yes, as a matter of fact I had a really good one last night.. It started off with..." Pietro didn't have time to finish his story because Lance had hit him on the back of the head.
"Stop thinking about my girlfriend like that pervert!" They both glared at each, forgetting that kitty was there. She used their stupidity to her advantage and began to walk away.
"Hey! Where do you think your going?" Pietro zoomed over to her and grabbed her before she had a chance to phase through him, "Uh uh uh, I wouldn't do that if I were you. Look down." Kitty looked to see that he was holding her over the side of the cliff and if she were to phase she would fall straight down. She had no choice but to hope that he wouldn't let her go.
"Pretty Smart, right Kitty" Lance stepped forward smiling from ear to ear, "My idea, you've phased out of my hands so many times that I finally figured out a way to get around that little problem."
"Trust me, If you try anything I will still phase. I would rather die than go out with either of you!" With that said she spat in Pietro's general direction.
"Well that's not very lady like. This is just to get your friends attention anyways." Pietro kept a steady grip on her waist as Lance kept a look out.
"He won't come! He doesn't even know I'm here! What if your arms get tired? Are you going to let me die because your so stupid?" Pietro and Lance fell quiet... they were dumbstruck. They hadn't thought about the fact that He might not be with her or not know where she was.
"You morons," She rolled her eyes as the other two blushed out of embarrassment.
"Put her down!" Kitty turned her head to see someone walking towards them.
"Luke?! What are you..." She was shocked... how did he know she was here?
"Morons huh? Well it looks to me like it worked after all!" Lance said.
"I told you to put her down... this is between us." Luke walked forward step by step. Slowly Pietro put Kitty back on safe ground.
" Listen, I didn't do that because you told me to, I did it because we don't need her now that you're here and ...my arms were getting tired." Pietro stated as Kitty ran over to Luke.
"Toad told us you have control over water... too bad there isn't any up here eh? Looks like your defenseless." Pietro paced around mocking him.
"I want to beat him up first." Lance said.
"Fine, go get your kicks but save some for me, and I don't want you using your powers, we're on a cliff so one earthquake can send us all down." Pietro grinned knowing that Lance was just about to use them, and shocked knowing he was going to have to fight fair.
"Uh... no matter... I'll still beat him to a pulp!" Lance quickly ran for Luke. He pulled back his fist and swung for Luke's head but all he hit was air. Luke had ducked just in time and punched Lance square in the stomach. Feeling the full force of the blow Lance doubled over clutching his stomach in pain.
"My powers aren't my only strength," Luke stood tall and walked closer to Pietro, passed the collapsed body of Lance who was whimpering with pain.
"Well unlike him, I can use my powers, and I'm going to take care of you once and for all!" Pietro speed around Luke faster than he could follow and constantly threw punches and kicks... normally they wouldn't be so strong but when combined with such speed and with them happening so rapidly Luke found himself on the ground bruised and bleeding.
"Stop it!!!" Kitty found herself running over to Luke's side. Pietro was standing a few feet from them laughing. "Y-You animal!! How could you use your powers when you knew he couldn't?!"
"Kitty... take this, it's yours.." Luke started to pull something out of his pocket.
"Whatever it is can wait... you need to rest, your hurt." But Luke shook his head and placed something in her hand. All of the sudden a rush came over her. Energy blazed through the air and her entire body began to glow. She was filled with such intense power that she became over whelmed. The ground began to tremble and then a sudden burst of light shot out of her hand. Kitty felt herself blacking out... everything started to fade and it got quiet.
In the Recovery ward...
"Ah, Kitty, you're finally awake. How are you feeling?" Kitty opened her eyes to see the professor wheeled next to the side of her bed, except it wasn't her bed, it was one of the recovery ward's beds.
"What happened? I remember a bright flash...but then." Her head still hurt but other than that she was feeling ok.
"It's alright Kitty. I'll try to explain everything as best as I can. You were at the lookout point when you were confronted with Pietro and Lance." The professor clasped his hands together and looked at her thoughtfully.
"Ah, yes! I remember, then Luke came and.... LUKE?! Where is he? Is he ok?!" She panicked, she remembered him fighting and being badly hurt.
"Calm down, Luke is fine. He carried you back here after you blacked out." The professor pulled a curtain over to show Luke laying asleep in the bed next to hers with several bandages on. 'He was badly hurt and he still carried me home? He must have been in so much pain. I cant imagine anyone doing that. He's amazing'.
"Now that I think about it, why did I black out in the first place? What was that light from?" Kitty looked to the professor. He pulled something out of his pocket and showed her.
"That night, Luke handed you this. It's the amulet I've told you about. When you held onto it, it's power was too much for you to handle for your first time so you let out a giant blast of energy, sending Pietro and Lance into the forest and you then blacked out."
"But that would mean that..."
"Yes, your great great great grandfather created this amulet. I confirmed with your parents this morning that you indeed have heritage from Liverpool England. I am ashamed that I did not figure it out sooner. You are the heir we have been searching for these past few days." Kitty couldn't believe what she was hearing. She was so sure that the heir would be someone like Jean that she never even considered herself to be a possibility. But here she was... the decedent and heir to a great power that she cant even control!
'What's going to happen to me now?'
That's it for chapter 4! Yup, we got some Pietro in there. Isn't Luke a sweetheart? He carried her home even though he was half dead, now that's love. Now that we know Kitty is the decedent.. What's gonna happen next? You'll have to wait and find out. Review!
-Strawberry ^_^
(P.S. Anybody notice how every chapter seems to be longer than the chapter before it? Almost a page difference everytime!)
