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"Why did we come here again?" I screamed though the rising snow, my cape twisting and turning in the blizzards wind. I was so glad I'd grabbed it now.
"Because Ash told us to." Jubes called back from in front of me where she was struggling in her yellow Mac, Wolverine who was up in front of her didn't look as if he was having much trouble at all.
"Remind me why we always do what Ash says again?" I spat out the snow, this planets didn't taste as nice as our own.
"Because she's the leader." Wolverines voice was barely audible.
I winced as the snow went in my eyes, so I pulled my cowl down a little. "And she's the leader because?"
"Don't backchat kid, you may be a goddess but I can still claw ya."
I winced. "Courage. Why was Ash courage? I could have been courage."
"You think too much, that's why you're Knowledge." Jubes shouted back... how she'd heard me I had no idea because I'd muttered as I often did when complaining.
With this comment however, short little Jubes was knocked backwards into the snow by a sharp blast of wind, even I had to struggle not to be blasted onto my back.
"Jubes you Ok?" I said leaning forwards to see her better.
"I'm fine I just..."
"MELODY...!" A scream perforated the air. I looked up but it wasn't Wolverine who had called out my name. "MELODY...!" It was coming from the whited out distance. "MELODY...!" And whoever was shouting sounded in pain.
"MELODY...!"
"Who the hell is that?" I asked Wolverine who on hearing it had put out his claws and stepped closer to us as I kneeled over Jubes in the snow.
"MELODY...!" It called again.
"WHERE ARE YOU?" I screamed at nothing in particular.
"MELODY...!"
"WHO ARE YOU?" I called again. Then there was a sudden rumble that shook the ground beneath us.
"Avalanche." Wolvie said as he grabbed hold of my arm. "Keep it down or you'll bury us all."
I bit my tongue, wishing I'd gone alone too. Then I wouldn't have to worry about Jubes or Wolvie, I'd have been ok to do whatever I had to- but now I had to think during battle... think about them as well as...
"MELODY...!"
"If I have to shut up will someone tell that bloke to keep it down?" I said, pulling the yellow Mac around a shivering Jubes.
"He sounds familiar, Mel." She winced.
"I know." I said, peeping out from the cowl then brushed it aside so that I had freedom of movement, so that I could turn and look about me.
"Hello..." I called lightly, not wanting to disturb the snow above us.
"MELODY...!" Then he came into view, like a perfect image against a white screen.
Doubled over in pain, dripping his blood on the pure snow, shivering violently for his uniform had been ripped to shreds by something... and the pain in his eyes...
"KURT!!!!!" I screamed feeling the pain well up in me too. I was yet also wasn't happy to see him, not this way, not this hurt.
"MELODY...?" He asked, his eyes unseeing, blinded... he was blind.
"KURT..." I said standing, not believing what I was seeing, willing it to be a mirage. "Wolvie, do you see him there?" I asked, tears running down my face.
Wolverine could only simply nod.
"Jubes... what about you?" I said looking down at her. She had propped herself up in the snow to see what was happening. Her expression said everything her mouth could not. She saw him; she was seeing exactly what I was seeing.
"Kurt...? Is that you?" I asked walking closer. "Kurt?"
"Melody?" He whispered just above the wind. "Is that you my Melody?"
I nodded tearfully before realising he couldn't see me. "I'm here Kurt, I'm with you Kurt."
"You are always with me Melly." He said before falling limply into the snow at my feet, exhausted, dying.
I rushed to him "Kurt!" Kneeling in the snow, the emotions I'd had since leaving him flooding out of my body within seconds, the loneliness, my hatred for this place all gone and replaced with concern for the man before me. "Kurt what are you doing here?"
He struggled for an answer "I followed you through the portal… I couldn't stand being without you. I love you my Melody."
I started to cry bitter tears looking down on him. He shouldn't have come he should have stayed at home without me, not here dying before me.
"Are you crying Melly?" He asked innocently, letting his weak paw find its way up to my face. I nodded, gently knowing that now he'd know of my movement.
"Do not cry my goddess. I am fine." He said, his breathing quickened and blood crept from the corner of his mouth. He really was dying.
"Kurt please tell me who did this to you. Then I can go and make them pay..."
"Vengeance is a sin; an angel can not debase herself by performing a sin." He smiled through the pain. "You are an angel Melody, let this be."
"But I can't." I choked.
"If God is to take me then let him take me from your embrace, my love." He had slipped his arm under mine; his tail used the last of its strength pushing weakly against my back trying to get me to lower myself against his chest. So at this insistence I did what he wanted lowered my head against his chest and pushed all thoughts of revenge out of my head as I listened to his slowing heartbeat.
Calming and killing me as it slowly died away, driving my tears and putting a knife through my heart as the man I loved died in my arms.
Why did he have to love me? If he hadn't then he wouldn't have been here on this hostile mountain with whatever had done this to him... he wouldn't have been...
"MEL LOOK OUT!?!" a scream came from behind me as I sobbed on the corpses chest. Wolverine was calling to me.
I looked up out of reflex and saw what he was talking about.
The hand of Kurt's that had slowly slumped on his "Death" around my back was now raised up, transformed from the blue fur of Kurt's to a steely swords point.
Quickly I raised my force field before it hit me and it bounced off of it as I rolled away across the snow.
When I looked up again from the ground Kurt had been transformed from his dead frame to a two-headed metallic beast. Both heads were mainly mouths with thousands of pointed jagged teeth and two little slits for eyes above them. And it was heading towards me, ripping off my cape as it did.
I stood, mouth open rooted to the spot. I couldn't move for fear.
"Mel... Kill it." Jubes shouted from the floor. I couldn't even raise my eyebrow in recognition... not that I could anyway. Instead I stood like a moron watching it advance on me, knowing it wanted to kill me... but strangely not being able to do anything about it.
"MEL... KILL IT!" Jubes again screamed. But still I stood like stone.
I felt metal hands around my neck lift me from the ground with very little trouble, steal fingers closing around my windpipe… I was going to blackout I knew it…
Then I felt something graze my stomach through the haze, sharp… deadly to anyone, but me.
The grip loosened and dropped me to the ground, panting for breath. As I looked up I could see what it was now fully.
Wolverine had saved my life. He was now in the process of pulling the… whatever it was away and off of his claws.
"He didn't smell right." He muttered under his breath, "But hell I thought the kid would know him better than I could."
I just stared up at him… thanking god that I actually had them with me now.
2 hours later we were still trekking across the snowy valley between the two purple mountains. We'd made a splint for Jubes out of a root that had clawed its way out of the snow and attacked me… long story don't really want to go into it.
Now further down the valley we had all learnt our lessons and decided not to trust either our eyes or our ears, which made everything a lot harder.
At one point we'd been heading towards the horizon when Wolvie had pointed out that on the map it said there was a cliff directly in front of us… we didn't know whether Ashes map was the false one or if what we were seeing in front of us was. We decided to trust Ash… and if we died we'd come back and haunt the little runt.
After another hour I felt like we were getting nowhere. We'd been walking for as long as I could remember… or at least wanted to remember, because we had been walking before that. And Wolverine wasn't about to let us sit down, not that we wanted to sit down in the snow… but it was a better option than the walking.
"Why did we come here again?" I moaned to Jubes, who I had to half carry.
"Because Ash told us to." Jubes answered, struggling.
"Remind me why we always do what Ash says again?" I moaned dragging along the girl who was slowly loosing all the will to live she had.
"Because she's the leader."
Suddenly I was having severe deja-vu. Maybe it was the cold, maybe it was the fact we'd had this conversation some 4 hours earlier but couldn't remember it.
With my cloak gone I was frozen and the yellow Mac that I was leaned against wasn't letting much warmth from Jubes through.
I wanted to be home at the academy in our nice warm wing in front of a nice warm fire throwing things at the Brady bunch.
I wanted to be in class drinking shots every time Scott stuttered. I wanted to be talking about Macbeth and Othello with Hank. I wanted to be in bed with Kurt. I wanted to be making water bombs and fire bombs (Kats idea) and hurling them out the window at the professor as he dashed past.
I wanted to be in the danger room on some harsh unforgiving planet rescuing the population from some unimaginable… ok scratch that one. I didn't want to be there. Scratch that again. I didn't want to be here.
"What's that up there?" Wolverine asked us, I don't know why… he was closer to it and had better eyesight than either of us.
"I hope it's a 5 star B and B with en suite bathrooms."
"And central heating." Moaned Jubes in ecstasy at the thought.
"Calm down Jubes my girl." I said prodding her back into the real world.
"Sparky?" I heard Wolvie call back… I looked up to the horizon again and saw slowly appearing out of the pure white, just as my vision of Kurt had, my lovely leader… only.
She was hanging by her hands, which were tied together with robe, her throat cut, from a broken piece of wood.
"Ashley!" and the brazen and rash Wolverine started to run towards her, his little legs chugging through the snow at the speed of light.
I felt numb… there was very little I could do though. Holding onto Jubes who was starting to blub at what she was seeing, I fiddled around in her pocket for the piece of parchment on which Ash had drawn our map, which I hoped we could still put our faith in.
When I found it I twirled it towards me and examined it again. This wasn't right…
"WOLVERINE STOP RIGHT NOW!!!" I screamed towards him.
He stood caught between me and Ash. Looking distraught… I'd never seen him like this.
"What the hell are you doing? Aren't you going to help her, or are you so up your own ass that you can't help your own leader?" He questioned me, driving a dagger through my heart at the mere insinuation that I wouldn't help Ash if she was in trouble.
"I'm not helping her because that isn't my leader!" I called back, less loud remembering about the avalanches.
"I don't know what your smoking kid, but don't anymore." He said taking a step closer.
Drastic times I thought, reaching back into Jubes' pocket again. Trying to find something I'd felt before. As my fingers brushed it I smiled.
"Hey!" Jubes called as I pulled her red yo-yo from her pocket and dashed forward, sending her to the floor again. I ran straight ahead managing to catch up with Logan though I have no idea how I did it.
I chucked the yo-yo out and let it slide out in front of us as we ran, rolling on its side for a metre… 2 metres… 3 then suddenly I disappeared, almost as if falling.
Logan's eyes went wide as I pushed myself backwards to stop myself skidding on the snow.
Logan stopped himself and caught my arm, almost yanking it out of its socket. But the pain was better than death off the side of, my guess, a cliff.
"We've been going round in circles for the last hour. Whatever that is couldn't convince us to walk over a cliff without provocation so he's using Ash. Because we all care about her." I explained.
"Why her and not Kat?" Jubes called, with a mouth full of terrible tasting snow. I had inadvertently dropped her on her front.
"Simple. I wouldn't give a rat's ass if Kat was hurt, because it would probably be her own fault." Wolvie growled as Ash started to look up, her eyes glowing red.
"What in the hell is that thing?" He asked as it smiled wickedly at us.
I took a sharp breath. "I think it's that thing that you stabbed back there, the one that pretended to be Kurt. The one that ripped up my cape." I said with more than a hint of anger in my voice. "I'm guessing that its part of this big evil that we're here to fight…"
"Oh you've only just realised that?" Jubes shouted sarcastically.
"And I'm guessing that because of that it can't be killed with conventional weapons. Maybe mutant powers but not with normal blades or stuff like that, like your claws."
I breathed feeling around for something, and not being able to find it. "And seeing as my powers are more defensive than offensive, Jubes is my Bow over there?" I called out. The girl struggled about for a second before finding what it was she and I were both looking for. Beneath her yellow Mac I had asked her to conceal my bow and Quiver, because without my cape I knew how exposed it was. Now I was kinda glad I'd given it her, as the beast that had been Ash was now flying at high speed towards me, in particular my head.
"Duck." Commanded Wolvie as he slammed my body into the snow for my own protection.
When it was gone over us with a whoosh of air I leapt to my feet running back to Jubes and my Weapon. I leapt the final metre as the beast flew past again, its visage of Ashley melted away to reveal the true ugliness at its heart. I don't use the word ugly lightly, to many my boyfriend was ugly but to me he was the most handsome creature on earth, to most my mentor beast was a monstrosity, to me he was dashing, to some Wolvie was a midget with way too much facial hair, to me… he was distinctive. I do not use the word ugly lightly, this however was ugly. Its two metallic heads were chomping wildly trying to catch onto any part of me they could.
Jubes pushed the bow into my hands and held the quiver securely on her lap. I grabbed a single arrow tipped with green feather flights and pulled back sharply, aiming down the arrow at the heart of the beast. Then with all the force I could muster let go. The arrow hit home but didn't do much good as it continued to head towards me. I grabbed for another arrow and pulled back two by accident.
Then it hit me… Two.
I put one arrow on the bow and pulled back hard on the bow. Aiming and hitting target. Then I grabbed the other one and did the same. Now there was an arrow in either head of the monster, like the hydra in Hercules. And the beast wasn't flying towards me anymore; it was now heading towards the ground swiftly falling like an apple from the tree into the soft snow. The false ground in front of Wolvie disappeared proving at least to me that the beast was dead. And then with a terrifying crash its body hit the ground exploding into a rain of blue guts and red blood.
"Duck" I screamed and we all did, after all how was I to know if the innards of this demon were corrosive or not?
When we were well and truly covered in the insides of the ugly thing we stood for a second examining the debris… half of which now covered my blouse.
"Why did we come here again?" I repeated through Gritted teeth.
Jubes looked at me afraid, Wolverine looked at me annoyed. But both said it all the same. "Ash."
"I'm going to make that girl's innards into eveningwear." I grunted in extreme anger… after all these were my only clothes on this planet… and now they were covered in red and Blue… not my best colours.
Then we all heard it.
"What's that rumbling?" Jubes asked innocently… well as innocently as Jubilee could.
"I was rather hoping that it was your stomach…" I said as rage swept out of me to be replaced with terror. "Tell me it isn't…" I pleaded Wolvie who stood bolt upright at the sound.
"We'd better start running Goddess, cause unless your powers extend to shovelling snow we're in trouble."
The snow was getting louder behind us and I knew that with a hobbling Jubilee that we were in trouble.
"Do you have a plan that possibly doesn't involve us out running this thing Wolf boy?" I asked annoyed as I tried to drag Jubes again, with no help from the hairy one.
"Less of the Wolf boy more of the pulling…" He yelled back as he ran in front.
"You do realise I'm the important one here don't you. If I'm not around for that final battle you might not be going home!"
He stopped, I hope because I'd made a good point, more likely though because he'd had an attack of conscious. He often had told us how easy it would be without us cause we were the only girls that he ever felt sorry he'd hurt.
So we hurried, both taking an arm of Jubes' each and running as fast as we could. Hell at least it was keeping us warm.
Then I realised the Wolf boy… Well wolf man was muttering to himself.
"How could I have been so stupid as to think that was the girl…?"
"Hey, you aren't stupid… it was a good illusion. Hell I'd Kill to be able to make visions like that." I struggled under Jubes' weight. "Hell, it managed to convince me that it was Kurt… it even knew to call me Melly. It must have been telepathic. Don't beat yourself up about it."
We continued running, though the snow was growing louder, and louder and louder… it was starting to get green around us though… lush trees surrounded and the grass was beginning to emerge from beneath the snow.
"Hold on." I said getting an idea. "I'll take Jubes, cut down a few of those trees and put them in a pile it should hold it back for a minute." I said taking the full weight and moving as fast as I could down the rapidly emerging path.
Strangely he did just as I said… without a bribe. Then after a few minutes he caught up with us… not that we had gotten far.
"Jubes when we get home… if we get home… I'm outlawing Twinkies from the fridge."
"AWWWW" Jubes whined… "But they're full of creamy goodness."
My face turned as red as it could… "Never say that in my company again, Promise me that Jubes."
"Why…?" she asked innocently. Then her face turned red "Ohhh now I get it."
It kept me and her giggling like schoolgirls until we reached the meeting point… where Bobby and Kat joined in the laughter… although they didn't quite understand the joke.
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