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 13: Coming Together
A/N: Sorry if in the last chapter some of you thought I butchered Kurt's accent. I didn't want to just act like he talked like the others, because that would just be weird and annoying… to me that is.
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John sighed and stood up. They had waited another five minutes, "I'm going to go tell the others what the problem is." Stephen immediately followed suit, "Oh no, there's no way I'm letting you go anywhere without supervision." Amanda and Jean all stared at him. It was the first time he had talked to anyone except the professor or Amanda. John scoffed but nodded and the two walked out. Amanda turned around, suddenly feeling awkward. "So, I hear you're a telepathic...?" Phoenix nodded, smiling. "Yeah. I didn't used to be too powerful in that area, but after my power surge… well. Let's just say that if I keep getting stronger, than in a few years I might be able to use Cerebro without killing myself." Basilisk nodded, having been told all about Cerebro. "Can I ask you a favor?" The older redhead looked somewhat confused, but nodded.
Amanda had an idea. She needed someone to read John's mind. Marie and Bobby had told her what they think may be happening, and she wanted to know for sure. "Could you possibly read Pyro's mind for me?" Jean looked ready to say no, but from the look on Amanda's face she could tell it meant a lot to her. "What for?" With a sigh Amanda looked around, making sure the boys weren't coming down the hall and told Jean their whole story from beginning to their present state. Reluctantly Jean nodded. She knew that if she couldn't read Scott's mind and she thought he was being overtaken by a mind-controller. She would want help. So she closed her eyes and focused. Because of her new found power she no longer needed to touch one's head to know what was going on inside.
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John reached up and touched his head; it felt like his brain suddenly had an itch. 'What the hell?' Looking around, he couldn't see any reason as to why he should have that feeling, so he didn't say anything about it.
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After what must have been two minutes of searching she opened her eyes and blinked. "Amanda, I'm sorry… I can't say for sure… but there is something wrong with him. There are empty spots in his memory, and they have indeed come around recently. I did find something though, and I think you oughta know about it. That night that you were just telling me about, where you found him in bed with Sarah… He was telling the truth Hon, that was Mystique." Amanda's face fell, 'He was telling the truth?' Somewhere in the back of her mind a voice shouted, 'Of course he was you idiot! Why would he lie to you about something like that? Geez!' As she felt the tears come to her eyes she turned her head away from the older woman. 'How could I have been so stupid?' Suddenly Jean's voice answered in her head, 'Hey. We all make mistakes, and you did what you thought was right. Just as he did when he left.' Amanda turned her head back to Phoenix, she had to know for sure now. "Can you try reading Enchantra's mind?"
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Cheyenne leaned back in the seat. That disgusting Diablo and her ex-crush John had just returned and told them all what was going on. She sighed into the air, 'Why am I surrounded by incompetent fools?' As her head leaned against the back of the seat she got the strangest sensation somewhere inside of it. She didn't like the feeling and almost immediately she jolted back up, thinking it had something to do with the seat. But the feeling didn't stop. "What the hell is going on here?" Everyone looked at her in surprise, "What are you talking about? John just told us what was going on." She glared at the offender, Iceman is what he was called. "Not that you idiot, I know about that." Bobby narrowed his eyes at her, and the usually calm Marie looked ready to whip off her glove and slap the mind controller free-handed.
"I'm talking about whatever is happening inside my head."
"Well, no one knows what's going on there. Didn't know you had anything in there that something COULD happen to." John couldn't help but snort at Diablo's remark.
Enchantra glared at Stephen. "I suggest you shut it before I make you do things you would regret." The green-eyed teenager walked right in front of her and glared down with one eyebrow raised. "Like what?" She found herself slightly regretting having said that, but shook it off and glared right back at him. "Like hurting your precious cousin, or worse, killing her." For some reason after she said this the itching sensation stopped in her brain. At this point it was John's turn to glare, he too stepped up next to Stephen and narrowed his eyes down at the bitch below him. "Ever say anything like that again and I can guarantee you'll burn for it."
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Jean opened her eyes, slightly shocked at what she found. "You're right Amanda. She has been controlling him. She just threatened your life too!" Basilisk blinked, unsure of what Ms. Grey was getting at. "What do you mean? My life has just been threatened?" Jean nodded, "Yes. Seems she and Stephen had a little argument and she ended it with something about hurting you. Good thing John went in and fixed it, although I wish he would have thought of a less violent way to do so." Amanda blew a strand of hair out of her face. "John hurt her for it?" Phoenix thought about this for a moment before she shook her head, "No, not really. Just threatened her right back, he said…" But she never got to finish her sentence as the doors to Cerebro opened and out came a rather tired looking Charles Xavier. He sighed and looked at Jean, "I found Devon. It took forever and he might move again, but right now he's stopped. Here are the coordinates." With a nearly shaking hand he handed a piece of paper over to the woman who was like a daughter to him and she and his student ran off to the Lightning Bolt. Watching them leave he sighed, 'What has this got in store for us?'
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