All right, folks, here's the second chapter. And guess what? We meet Janella!! Oh happy day! *Dances* Sorry, I'm quite hyper right now.
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Janella Baduini sat up, stretching to ease the kinks in her back. She removed the heavy leather work-gloves she was wearing and wiped the sweat off her brow. She stretched her arms and legs and stood, reaching for the bottle of Gatorade in the shade. The unscrewed the top of it and took a long swig before putting her gloves back on and setting back to work weeding the strip of shrubbery behind the large rural home she lived in.
~Why isn't Reno helping, the lazy…?~ her thought trailed off as she heard the sound of a jet flying overhead. She looked up quickly, but couldn't see anything. ~Probably just another Air Force hotshot,~ she thought scornfully, remembering the incident that nearly blew the windows out of her middle school a few years ago when she still attended it. She chuckled, and worked her trowel under a clump of stubborn dandelions. She couldn't believe school had finally let out! Yet here she was, on her first free afternoon, weeding the damn shrubbery!
It wasn't long until she got the feeling she was being watched, and figured out where her stepbrother must have gone. Very quickly, she allowed pair of cat-like ears grow up through her hair, which was rapidly turning from dark brown to bright red. The thick plait down her back became thicker and grew longer, and a mop of short red strands replaced the few loose wisps of her usual hairstyle. A bushy auburn tail sprouted from the end of her spine and began swishing back and forth. She cocked her ears and listened, but didn't hear another sound for a few moments. Then, the sounds of quiet movement reached her ears again, but were getting fainter. Whatever it was was moving away, so she relaxed, shifting back into her typical form.
She bent back to her work, trying to do it as quickly and thoroughly as possible, so she could get back inside and actually begin to enjoy her vacation! She growled as she spotted a particularly large, nasty looking, thorned plant growing right next to one of the bushes she was tending. She looked at it with disgust. Plants like that could poke right through gloves! It would require an alternate method of removal.
Luckily, she had one.
After a cursory glance around to make sure no one she didn't know was watching, she removed the gloves and held up her hands. She squinted at them, and after a moment, her forearms and hands began to change. First, the skin became a dull yellow, mottled color, and them the mottling turned into the raised pebbles of scales. The bones in her hand lengthened, and her fingers melded together before splitting into three digits, each tipped with a wicked, curving claw.
She grinned at the now raptor-like hands, and flexed them experimentally, before beginning to dig into the ground with them. She excavated the weed and flung it away from her, towards the woods. Then, to her surprise, she heard a female voice shout, "Kurt, look out!" followed by a cry of, "Aah! Flying veeds!" and a laugh. She pivoted on the balls of her feet, but just ended up tripping over her own feet and falling to her rear.
"Who's there?" she asked in a quavering voice. "Show yourself!"
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Okay, that done: I don't own X-Men: Evo. Not that I haven't tried…O.O Ignore that…^.^'