The Dragon Tamer: Spellbound

(PG-13 for swearing and suggestive actions and words. This is Part II in The Dragon Tamer series. I think most of you know as well as I do that I don't own X-Men or the characters (except the ones I make up, you should be able to tell who those are.) Enjoy!

Chapter 12: Figure It Out

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John sat on one of the logs. Trying to keep from looking too disappointed. They had talked to Evan about his plan, and Evan had turned it down. Saying that now he had something to stay there for; to keep John and Amanda apart. 'Damn idiot.' John took a deep breath as Magneto and Xavier stood or wheeled in front of them all. Magneto was the one who spoke first. "We've got an idea. We will all fly to the school and Charles will use Cerebro to find either Tornado or Devon. We have a strong feeling that they are together wherever they are." Pyro sighed, 'Great. More memories to return to me.' There were a couple of groans and grunts as the tired teens and adults stood up and sauntered to their take-off vehicles.

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They had landed at the mansion five minutes ago, and only the Professor and Jean went inside. Amanda looked around warily. She was nervous about Magneto, Mystique, and Enchantra being in the school. John oddly didn't bother her, since he used to go to school there. But the other three… well, she just didn't trust them. She knew that if it hadn't been for the emergency the Professor wouldn't allow them in either. But then another part of her knew that there were more than enough people in the mansion to easily overpower the trio, and even if John joined them they wouldn't win.

She frowned. John was in the seat across from her and he just wouldn't stop staring. The worst part was hearing Magneto and Mystique laugh every five seconds at her failing attempts not to look at him. With an inward sigh she took the opportunity to glance over at Bobby and Marie, who were cuddling much to her dismay. 'Great, I run into my ex-boyfriend and my two best friends are cuddling right in front of us. Just my luck.' But rather than voice this she turned her attention to her cousin, who was giving John looks that clearly said, 'I don't like you. I don't want to know you. Stay away.' When he caught her staring he flashed her a fanged smile and looked away, realizing what he'd done. She blinked, since when did he have fangs? Slowly she raised an eyebrow at him and he sighed, coming over to sit next to her.

"Where did those come from?" She whispered, as not to let the still staring John know what she said. "It's no big deal. About a year ago I had a friend of mine use lasers and cut them into this shape…" He stopped at the deadly glare on her face. "You allowed some idiot to use lasers in your MOUTH!" Stephen nodded a bit sheepishly and looked around as everyone who wasn't piloting was now staring at them. "..Fangs.." He said and everyone but Kurt went back to doing whatever it was they were doing. The blue man bamfed and ended up on the other side of Diablo. "You actually vanted fangs?" Stephen nodded. This confused Nightcrawler to no end, "Vhy vould anyvone vant them? Zey just grew on me… I had no choice." Diablo blinked, "I always thought it would be neat. Ya know, scare people off with them." Once again the blue man sitting next to him looked baffled, "Vhy vould you vant to scare ozhers off? I've spent my life trying to convince zhem zat I vouldn't harm them…"

At this point Storm stood up and walked back to her Nightcrawler. "How are we doing back here?" Diablo looked up at her with a 'help me' expression her face. She nodded with a smile and put her hand on Kurt's shoulder. "Why don't you come to the front with me and we'll talk about… things." She added, trying to find something to say. "Like our wedding, ok?" He nodded, giving Stephen one more confused look and followed her to the seats just behind the pilots, where Scott was watching the mansion doors, awaiting his mentor and wife to come back to the Lightning Bolt, as that's what they were in.

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Another twenty minutes had passed and still no sign of them. Almost everyone was getting a little antsy. 'What could be taking them so long?' Cyclops looked around. There was no way he was going in, he wanted to make sure Magneto and his gang didn't pull any fast ones. Kurt and Ororo were obviously very involved in their conversation. That left the kids. With another glance he noted that Marie and Bobby were both asleep… but Amanda and Stephen looked free. "Basilisk, Diablo. I'm gonna have to ask you two to go in and see what's holding them up." Amanda nodded, glad to be getting away from John's eyes. She thought too soon as Magneto stood up, "Pyro, you go too." Scott looked ready to argue against this, but after a few moments hesitation he nodded. John stood up and the trio walked down the steps.

Once they got inside the mansion Amanda and John lead the way to Cerebro. Where they found Jean waiting just outside the still closed doors of the machine. "Jean, what's taking so long?" The older woman sighed at Amanda's question. "We think they may have some kind of teleporter with them. But we can't be sure. All we know is both Devon and Tornado have a broken line. So we have to wait until they stop, and pray they stay in the area. The professor is actually going to stay here, so he can inform us if they move. But until that point we have to wait until he can track one or the other." Diablo looked confused, but didn't ask any questions. What was all this talk about broken lines? What exactly was this machine, Cerebro?

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