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 14: Starting Over
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As Amanda and Jean approached the jet everyone got back into their seats. Scott leaned over to let the stairs down and they boarded. Amanda gave Cheyenne a very disgusted look when she walked by her, which the raven-haired beauty so happily returned. Once the plane got in the air Jean looked back to Amanda, 'Take him to the back and talk to him.' Basilisk looked up from staring at the floor and gave Jean a rather confused look, 'What if he won't listen?' Phoenix smiled, 'Don't worry. He will.' So with a defeated sigh Amanda stood up and held her hand out to John. "We need to talk about… stuff." That was all she could say as she once again glared at the smirking Cheyenne.
Pyro looked up at her for a few moments before taking her hand, unbuckling his seat belt and following her to the small room in the back of the jet. As they walked into the room he looked around, "Wow. The Professor can really get things done when he wants to." It was a small bedroom of sorts. Apparently the good Professor had decided he might sometime want to get away from the mansion. Amanda nodded and sat on the bed. He sat down next to her. "What do you want to talk about?" She took a really deep breath and the words literally spilled out of her mouth, making her sound a bit like Quicksilver. [1]
"I'm-really-sorry-for-this-but-I-had-Jean-read-your-mind-to-see-if-Cheyenne-was-controlling-you-and-it-turned-out-that-she-has-at-some-point-but-what-I-came-here-to-talk-about-it-the-fact-that-you-were-telling-the-truth-on-that-night-that-I-found-you-in-bed-with-Sarah-and-I-want-to-apologize-for-everything-I-said-and-did-and-can-you-forgive-me?" She sucked in another breath and looked at him. He blinked. All his mind registered from what she said was 'sorry… Jean… mind… Cheyenne… talk… it… truth… night… Sarah… apologize… and forgive.'
"Say again?" She sighed and repeated what she had previously said only much slower. His eyes got wider with every word that spat out of her mouth. He wasn't upset with her for having Jean read his mind. What upset him was the fact that Cheyenne had been controlling him. And try as he might he wasn't able to remember any of it. "Cheyenne… was controlling me?" The girl before him nodded, "Yeah. That's her power, that's why she's called Enchantra, she can enchant anyone's mind. Well, almost anyone; People like the Professor and Jean she couldn't, they're too strong for it."
He took another breath as the other thing she said hit him. He nodded, while trying to swallow down the lump that was beginning to form in his throat. "I forgive you, and I understand why you didn't believe me. I've never been angry with you for not believing it. You saw what you saw and you didn't want to believe anything else. I'm like that too. Hard-headed." With a defiant smirk he placed his arm around her shoulders and they walked back into the main area. Everyone was looking at them suspiciously. Amanda flashed Marie a grin and sat down next to her, as she had woken up.
Stephen followed Amanda and sat next to her. "I want to talk to you." Holding back a sigh Basilisk followed him as well to the back room. As soon as she sat down he began. "I don't know half of what's going on here, and I'm not really sure I want to know. But what the hell is going on between you and the fire guy?" Amanda leaned forward and let the sigh out, "I met John last year, back then he was an X-Man and not a brother in the brotherhood. One night at a dance both of our dates ditched us and he asked me to dance. Long story short we started dating and while we and some of the other teenagers were out camping I was kidnapped by a man named Raptor who wanted to make me a weapon."
He sat down to listen and she continued, "It took a while but the others finally got to me and we were spread out everywhere. John saved me and we saved the others. When we got back to the mansion the Professor and the teachers, other than Wolverine, had all gone to Alkali Lake…" She stopped seeing her cousin's eyes widen, "That's where I was a while back. That's where I got my… claws." Amanda nodded, "Yes. And that's where Wolverine got his. And Lady Deathstrike too… You don't know about her do you? Well, I'll tell you in a minute. Anyway, like I was saying. When we got back to the mansion the adults were gone and it was just us teenagers in charge. Once again trying to shorten the story that night I found John in bed with who I thought was a girl from school. It turned out to be Mystique… er… the blue woman out there. She's a shapeshifter."
Stephen flopped on his back, "Forget I asked." With a chuckle Amanda stood up and was about to leave before he spoke again. "You said you would tell me about this Deathstrike woman, who is she?" Amanda grinned, "From what I hear she was pretty cool. She was oriental and had a claw in each finger." Satisfied that she had told him more than enough she half waltzed back into the other room and sat back down next to Marie. Diablo was in deep concentration. 'Oriental? So that was who Stryker wanted me to meet. Oh well. Too late now.' With a sigh he forced himself to stand up and slowly made his way back to the others.
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[1] A/N: I know Quicksilver, or Pietro, isn't in the movie. No matter how much I wish he were. But he still exists and I figured I might as well bring him up anyway oO
