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 21: Epilogue

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Charles Xavier frowned into his hands. How was he going to tell Amanda? After John's coming home party died down, there was another commotion. The dead body was missing. After using Cerebro he found Stephen to be at Magneto's, and he wasn't being held captive either. 'What's wrong with people today?' Had Stephen merely been using them for something? What could he have gained from toying with their minds?

"Professor, have you found him yet?" He had just opened the doors to Cerebro when Amanda came up to him, John at her heels. There was simply no way he could inform her, until she was ready to handle it. For the moment she was unstable, and he didn't want to be the one to throw her over the edge. So praying that the lord would forgive him for this lie, he shook his head. "I'm afraid not Amanda. There doesn't seem to be any trace of him. But I will continue looking tomorrow." She nodded sadly and left with John's arm around her waist.

"Don't worry babe, he'll find her." John kissed her quickly on the forehead and let go of her. "I promised Bobby we would do a little one on one on the court. See ya later ok?" She put on a smile and nodded as he ran off to the basketball court. 'Guess I oughta find Marie since both our boyfriends ditched us.' The latter was thought with a smile, as she knew John had every right to play basketball with his best friend. "Amanda? Did he find him yet?" Basilisk turned around and spotted her own best friend sitting on the couch. "Nope. Not yet, but he says he'll look again tomorrow."

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Diablo sat in his chair, lightly tapping his fingers on the table top. They were in a meeting, trying to recruit the teleporter and Devon. He still hated Devon, as he had, after all, tried to kill him. And he almost had, but Stephen played dead and finally came here where he belonged. Not that he didn't think it might have been fun back at the mansion. As his thoughts drifted lightly to the girl playing with fire. He just didn't belong there. He could tell right away that for the most part they were all the type of people who didn't do anything without a reason. He wasn't like that. He was spontaneous and he loved being able to do pretty much whatever he wanted.

Somehow Mystique had seen right through his act, he wasn't sure how, but she had. And when she went back to say goodbye she offered him a place in the brotherhood, and told him all about it. He was interested to say the least, and they planned on what they would do. She had had a small talk with Enchantra and while Amanda was in her weakened state she half-way took over her mind and made Amanda think Stephen wasn't really dead, that he would wake up any time now. That's how they knew she would try and convince the Professor into letting him stay in the infirmary. Then around eight-o-clock she would come around and he would sneak out. It was even better that John had decided to come back, then there was a commotion and a reason for her to be there. There was a war coming between The Brotherhood and the X-Men. Magneto would make sure of that.