Story Chapter 13-Not a Moments Rest

                Bryan saw him now. Red eyes, that twisted smile across his face. The man was his brother, keyword being was. He didn't know where to find him again, he couldn't remember what Jack had done to save him those four years ago, he couldn't remember. And now, Jack stood tall, an arrogant grin wide across his face.

                "You thought I was dead, didn't you?" Jack asked, and Bryan just nodded.

                "The lines are drawn, the battle has begun, my brother. Death is something everyone has to succumb to, in the inevitable end. Why don't I just speed up that process?" Jack said heartlessly.

                Bryan saw a few of the X-men scramble amongst the ground, where the high school had once lain, where anything around the town had lain, truthfully.

                "You've missed them, haven't you?" Jack said, looking down towards his younger brother.

                "Jack, apart of you must still be in there, come on. You helped me out, somehow. Please." Bryan pleaded, down on his knees.

                "It seems as though you care about a certain girl, brother." Jack said, smiling. Bryans eyes opened in horror.

                "You wouldn't…" Bryan said in a begging tone.

                Jack twisted his head sideways. "Forgetful, I would do anything. Brother, how would you like to see our parents again?" Jack asked.

                "What, you're going to kill me?" Bryan said, looking Jack strait in the eye.  

                Jack scoffed. "If I killed you right now, there would be no challenge. I have remembered a power I have, though." Jack said smiling, and Bryan just shook his head, wanting this all to be just a horrible nightmare. "Yes, brother. You had this gift as well, wasn't it obvious? You blew them to oblivion, and then they rose again from the dead. My brother, I am going to reawaken our loving parents." Bryan felt his knee give way, and tumbled to the ground.

                "No…Your going to… do that?" Bryan asked, knowing what it meant.

                Jack nodded. "They've cruelly left us to fend for ourselves, now I think it's our turn to give them a bitter taste of the hell they've given us, and then make them live forever!" Jack said laughing.

                Bryan got back to his feet, and took a few steps back. "What are you going to do to me, then?" Bryan said.

                Jack laughed. "Brother, what good is all this power if theirs no one worthy to use it on? You are the world's last hope; you know what you need to do. I'll await your decision in two hours, if I don't see anything by then, consider this town rubble." Jack laughed flying off.

                Bryan stood still in shock at was happening. A few of the X-Men had gathered around him, it was Scott, Jean, and Kurt.

                "Vhat are ve going to do? It looks like he just vent crazy or something" Kurt commented, and Bryan blinked. They don't know what's going on here… but then again theirs no way that they could have, was there? Bryan thought

                Bryan just shook his head. "You guys can't do anything." Bryan said still shaking his head.

                Bryan saw Scott looking around frantically. "What got into him? Maybe Rogue can touch him?" Scott said with a look of brightness on his face.

                "That won't work." Bryan said right before they were about to run off. "If she touched him for even a quarter of a second she would collapse and be in a coma for months, if not years. And then theirs the risk that it might not even work." Bryan said looking at the ground.

                He could see the impatience in Scott's eyes. "Then, do you have a plan to stop him?" Scott yelled out.

                Bryan sighed for a moment, and then looked up to where his brother had flown off. "I guess." Bryan said now looking back down at the ground.

                "Well then, what are you waiting for?" Scott said.

                Bryan just glared him. "As soon as I'm done, please let you be the first person I see. I think right now I'd enjoy that." Bryan said quietly.

                "What was that?" Both Scott and Jean screamed at Bryan. He just laughed. God, I'm not even one percent gone, this is going to be less than pleasant.

                Bryan walked to Kurt. "Bluey, tell her that I love her, alright?" Kurt looked him oddly.

                "Vhy don't you tell her yourself?" Kurt asked.

                Bryan had to laugh, even with all that they had seen, and heard, they still didn't understand what he was doing. "Just promise me you will, alright?" Kurt nodded. "Now get out of here now, things are going to get ugly very quick." Bryan was now looking at the sky again, wondering if it would even be enough, and having a doubt about it.

                When they had picked up all of the still unconscious bodies and had gotten a safe distance away from him, Bryan let it begin. The pain felt as though a five-ton rock was dropped on him every second, and he couldn't fight it off, and then it began. The only thing to sooth himself was focusing on the loud screams coming from himself, he closed his eyes and he let it take control.

**

                Kitty had just gotten back from dropping all the kids at the Institute, and then she had made her way back to the battlefield, to see that the school, and most of the area around it had been demolished and left to debris. She couldn't let her mouth hang open in the shock though, she had to find some of the X-Men.

                She eventually ran into Scott, who was heading the opposite way. "I think this is far enough out." Scott said, and now all of them had arrived, the Professor, and all of them.

                "Like, what are you talking about?" Kitty asked.

                "Bryan said he had a way to stop Jack, and told us to get away from him." Scott said with a sly smile.

                Kitty gave a good long look at Xavier, and then fell to one knee. "Like, what are we going to do, like now?" Kitty said to the ground.

                Lance was right next to her. Holding her, comforting her, and she was grateful for it.

                "Kitty, would you mind explaining what just happened, I have to make sure of something." Xavier said strolling off.

                Kitty got up, and almost cried, but she managed to hold them to herself. "Vhat is going on? Bryan made a very big deal about vhatever he vas going to do, and you two are too?" Kurt asked, obviously frustrated with the current situation. They were X-Men, they were trained to protect innocents, use there powers for the greater good, be the first to bind the world of mutants and human beings together. This situation however, against a power that they didn't even understand. It was too much for them being told that they couldn't fight a battle with someone who they had become friends with, too much.

                "Like, that day you guys went to the Museum, or wherever you went, Simon showed up, and like that much is all history. Bryan told me everything then. He said that there power is like, they can get a dramatic increase very fast, but it costs like, their sanity or something like that. He then said the final gift, which is like the ultimate power, it like, costs your soul, which is what, I'm like guessing Simon and Jack did, and now, Bryan did, too." Kitty said looking at the ground.

                "What?" Came the voice that Kitty recognized as Samantha. "You mean, he's going to be without a soul?" She said screaming.

                Kitty gulped. "I like, guess that's what it means." She said looking back down at the ground.

                "So, what are we going to do after this fight? If that's the result, I never would of even asked him to do it in the first place." Scott said frustrated.

                "There is nothing we can do." Reentered the voice of Xavier. "We must all get to the mansion, now!" With nothing that they could do, they all rushed.

                Kitty starting towards her car, and took one look back at the light that came through Bryan, and she whispered goodbye, regardless of what happens, she knows she never will see the same man again, and from the look she saw on Samantha's face, Kitty saw that she knew it as well, and saw the tears in her eyes.

**

                The eyes reopened. No one was suppose to have a reawakening twice, no one was suppose to feel this sensation twice. The power entered him, and he accepted. Death, life, it was all just a vision. Every vision didn't matter, the pain that he had felt seemed like an eternity ago. He looked up, the one he used to call Jack stood high in the clouds, taunting him, defying his superior. The veins boiled in rage, and he met him.

                "We fight, brother." He said.

                "As you wish." Jack said, and he sensed something different about him.

                "You merged." Bryan said, and Jack smiled widely.

                "Simon and I did." Jack said with a triumphant tone. "Your powers are nothing compared to mine!" Jack said unleashing a fury of punches and kicks, but Bryan was too fast, and Jack went to the ground.

                "Brother, your death will be for nothing, I'm afraid." Said Bryan, letting himself be lost in the pain, engulfing himself into a blast, and then he released it. That was all he sensed from Jack, and now Bryan was bored.

                "All of this, for that?" Exclaimed Bryan, shocked. He felt something else though, a power stronger than an average human, yet just barely. He went to it, and found the mansion at which he had once stayed. Thoughts dwindled about, and nothing made sense.

                He saw them, now. He had once called them, friends. It was time that he found out the real truth to these individuals. "Fear not, thy children. You shall see the land of the gold, live amongst the gods in harmony and serve like you were meant!" He said to them.

                He saw a girl walk forwards at this time, he remembered her face, remembered, caring for her? She cried and quivered as she walked before him. "Don't you remember me?" She said crying in a torn dress.

                He nodded. "Samantha Ingst. Yes, the child I was before remembers and cares for you, that is why I'm sorry to do this." He floated into the air, ignoring the blasts from the boy named Scott, ignoring the lightning that was being shot down by Storm, ignoring the mind blasts from Xavier, they were truly nothing compared to his greatness, but then again, no one possibly could compare. He entered all of there minds, and looked at every last one of there memories, thoughts, and feelings.

                "Don't you like, remember us?" Kitty said with a tear in her eye.

                He made himself laugh. "Bryan Youngst is dead. He walks in a shadow, and there is no way for him to return." He said with a smile.

                "That's… not… true." Entered a new voice, and he saw Jack, only, he was different now, weaker.

                "Good, I knew you were stronger than that." Bryan smiled.

                "They love you. They want you… to live." Jack exclaimed.

                "What would you know? Death, pain, life? It's all apart of the same!" Bryan screeched and a red lightning flashed off of his body.

                Jack managed a small laugh. "They love you, they… told me. They want you to live; you're still in there, Bryan I know they are. These are my last words, live free brother, don't give way to the pain. I can die freely brother, you know what you need to do." With that he could feel Jacks death, and it rang within him hard.

                "Love… Love…love…what is…going…on…not…again…this…feeling…I…hate…this…feeling

…why… do…they…hate…me…they…saw…me….god…please…let…me…die." With a loud scream he snapped, everything went blue, everything went red, and he felt most of the power leave him. Bryan Youngst was returning, and he collapsed.

**

                Xavier sat in the hospital bed, looking at the boy that was there, Bryan Youngst. It had only been twenty-four hours sense then. Kitty, Kurt, and the girl that he had gotten close with, Amanda Xavier believed it was, sat next to him. "When is he going to be awake?" Samantha asked.

                The doctor came in and looked at her with a frown. "I'm afraid I don't know. It could be anytime now, or it could be in years. I'm afraid that this boys mental trauma was just too much for him to bear." The doctor said leaving the room.

                Kurt now walked towards Samantha and held his arm around her. "Before he vent, he vanted me to tell you, he loved you." Samantha hugged Kurt and then ran out of the room.

Now Kitty started crying hard, and Kurt was whispering prayers for Bryan to awaken soon. Xavier knew all along this would end, ever sense he saw Jack the day before, things had went exactly according to plan. But now however, Xavier didn't even know if Bryan would ever awaken into the world again, and if he did, he didn't have a clue as to what he would be like.

                They sat there for an hour, and then, they eventually left. Xavier didn't have any plans to return for more than awhile.

No, this is not the end of the story. I still have one more chapter to go, and then I want to add a authors closing statement thing. Yeah, some of the battles kind of bad (alright, all of them are horrid.) I never had planned this as being a real 'action' fanfic. As for Simon, well I'll explain all about that when I'm writing up my final summary thing. Hope you enjoy.