Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men, but I do own cyrus and rose

Chapter 11: Running

Cyrus and Rose are walking down a trail in the park. Rose looked at Cyrus deep into his eyes and they stop walking. She kept on looking. "Cy…"

He put his index finger on her lips. "Shh…" He whispered and kissed her.

"Awwww… how sweet!" A voice said and they looked around.

"Who's there? Who is it?" Cyrus asked.

A figure was seen on a branch above them. Cyrus looked up. "Toad? What are you doing here?"

Cyrus looked back at Rose and whispered to her. "Stay here… there might be more of them, be careful.

He flew up and Toad spits at him, but he missed and he uppercuts Toad and falls. As he is in the air he looks at Rose and behind her was Sabertooth, jumping at her from the bushes. "No!" He screamed and flew down to her and speared Sabertooth before he had the chance to touch her. Sabertooth grabs Cyrus by the throat and throws him against the tree, he stands and looks at Rose with a smile.

"Haha, come here, li'l girl…" He started to walk towards her.

Rose starts to back off, she kept thinking what she was going to do, her only power was to heal the people that were wounded in battle. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer to him. He looked at her, still smiling. He smells the area around him. "Ah, nature at almost at its best. Remind you, li'l girl, this is the last smell you'll ever smell!" He raised his claw to strike at her but then fingers wrapped around his eyes.

"What is this?!" He yelled.

Angelo jumped in so that Rose can see him. Angelo looked at Sabertooth. "You know, chico, you smell no bueno. I would hope this is not nature at it almost best." Angelo jerked Sabertooth's head back and he falls on the ground, hitting the back of his head on the ground.

Rose ran to Cyrus and healed him. He slowly got up. "Angelo? What are you doing here?"

"The mansion was under an attack, amigo. I saw Scott outside my window and he blasted my whole room up. I was lucky enough to run out my door as fast as I did." Angelo said.

"Where are Emma and Kurt at?" Rose asked.

"To tell the truth, I don't have a clue. I didn't check, I got out of that mansion as soon as I could."

As they were talking Sabertooth started to slowly get up behind them. He raised his claws to attack when all of a suddon Logan jumped out and stabbed Sabertooth. He looked at the other X-Men. "Get out of here, now!"

Bobby and Rogue ran to them. "Follow us, guys!" Bobby said as he and Rogue ran past them.

**

After running for a few minutes, they were stopped by Scott.

"Scott? What are you doing here?" Rose asked, out of breath.

He said nothing and was about ready to fire, but Bobby froze him.

Cyrus looked at Bobby. "Why'd you do that?"

Bobby walked behind Scott and defrosted behind his neck and removed the piece of metal. "Because of this!"

"What is that?" Angelo asked.

"It's something that made them against us, sugar." Rogue said.

Bobby defrosted Scott and Scott shook his head. "Where am I…?"

"No time to explain, Scottie, we have to get out of here." Bobby said and they started to run towards the exit.

"Bob." Cyrus said. "Where are we going to go since the mansion was invaded?"

Bobby had to think for a few seconds and then came up with the solution. "There's a place a few blocks down. It's Ororo Munroe's flower place, she and the Professor, I guess, were close before."

**

Bobby pounds on the door, hoping that Ororo would be there to answer the door. "Ororo! Answer the door! Please!!" Bobby shouted.

Cyrus and Angelo look around, hoping that the BrotherHood doesn't see them.

Ororo opens the door. "Sorry, sir, but we are closed—" She looked at him.

"Robert Drake? Is that really you?" She asked.

"Yeah, can we please come in real quick?" Bobby asked.

She looked at him weird. "Alright…"

**

Later, they all sat down around Ororo and told her what had happened.

"Listen.." She leaned her forehead on her hand; "I do not have anything to with the X-Men anymore…"

"I know that, Ororo, but isn't there anything you can do to help?" Cyrus asked.

She looked at them, knowing she can't do much. She thought to herself 'They must really need me. They have no teachers now, no where to go to…'

"Well…" she said and they all looked up at her. "I suppose it would be alright if you could stay here a little bit."

"You sure, Ororo? 'Cause if they find out where we are…" Scott asked.

Rose looked up. "We can't stay here… Jean is a telepathic, she can track us.."

Bobby stood up. "You're right, Rose."

He looked at Ororo, "Sorry we bothered you." He started to walk towards the door.

She looked at them. "Sorry I could not help any of you, I wish I could--"

Ororo was stopped when she saw a couple of dark figures walking towards the door. She looked with her jaw dropped.

"Ororo, what's wrong?" Cyrus asked her.

Bobby looked to see what she was staring at and he sees the figures.

"Uh, guys, I think that it's our time to get going…" Bobby said while staring at the figures getting closer to them.

"Children, go to the basement, there should be a window off in the far right corner. Climb out of there, go now, quickly!" Ororo said.

Rogue looked at Ororo. "Are yah sure?"

She looked back at Rogue. "Yes. Go, now."

The children run to the basement and shut the door behind them. Eric breaks the wall and goes to Ororo. "Ah, Ororo, long time no see." He said.

She looked at him disgustedly. "I know, and I would want to keep it that way."

"Where are they?" He asked.

"Where are whom, Eric?" She asked.

"The X-Men! Where are they?" Eric exclaimed.

Ororo looked over his shoulder and sees Gambit. "Remy… you stooped down this low?"

Gambit took a few steps forward and stood a foot behind Eric. "Why yes, chere. Dis is da best ding dat ever happen to me." He said.

"No it is not, Remy. These people are scum—"

She was cut off when Eric wrapped his hand around her neck. "Where are they? If you don't answer me, I shall kill you."

Ororo was struggling to breathe. "I will…. Never tell…you…."

He smiled. "Can't breathe, huh?"

He waited and he dropped her on the ground and looked at her. "Pitiful, woman."

Eric looked back at Gambit and Jean and Toad. "Right now we are the only one's left of the BrotherHood to take out the X-Men. I'm sure Sabertooth will take care of Logan for us. But now we must move on. Jean; search anywhere up to a mile around us to find out where they are, we shall kill them."