A.N. Thanks to the one person who reviewed and didn't say a thing about my spelling lol.
"How about this one?" Mitsuko asked, holding up a pink short-sleeved shirt with a hot pink heart in the middle. Kai, who was sitting on the bed, shook her head and gave it a thumbs down. Mitsuko sighed and put that one make and rummaged around in her drawers fir a minute before pulling out a baby blue T-shirt with a light pink heart. Kai seemed to go in though before she gave a wide grin, showing off her tiny fangs and giving it a double thumbs up.
"Yay!" Mitsuko squealed and set the shirt next to a pair of kaki shorts they had picked out earlier. The sounds of Touma showering could be heard and Mitsuko sighed and picked up the hair dryer that had lay dormant in her friend's hands for quite some time now.
"Here." She gently prodded her friend to turn around and turned the dryer on as she began to dry her friend's still dap hair form the shower she had taken earlier. She smiled as she picked up the long sandy blonde locks and dried them, much quicker at it than her friend. For extra style, she made sure to dry it so it curled to the inside. She giggled when her friend's ear twitched as the warm air blew over them, and her friend wiggled about.
"Want me to do your hair?" A soft sigh from her friend and a nod.
Mitsuko gently picked up the hairbrush they had found in the bathroom and began to brush out the long locks that reached a little past her friend's shoulders. Her own locks had been tamed a while ago and it was piled into a high ponytail with her bangs hanging down and curled a bit.
"Want me to style it like I usually do?" a nod and Mitsuko separated her bangs from the rest. Then she gently pulled the topmost part of her friend's hair back into a ponytail, leaving some of the middle, and all of the bottom to hang. She smiled as she wrapped the bangs around her fingers, giving them an extra curl.
"There." Kai turned around, her ears twitching slightly, but she was smiling. She had already gotten into her school clothes and was dressed in a pair of baggy blue jeans and an equally baggy blue shirt, a symbol for fire written on it in Japanese. On her arms, the same silver and black encrusted guards remained, hiding the scars.
Mitsuko suddenly sighed, still clad in a nightgown, and sat down beside her friend, gentle taking her hands into her own. She traced the guards.
"You know… they'll all find out sooner or later."
-I know.- her friend looked down and gently took her own hand back into her own. She had yet to activate the holo watch.
-Professor Xavier said they would know we were mutants because we hang out with the people from here.-
"I know.." Mitsuko trailed off and there was silence, except for the shower. Suddenly, Mitsuko smiled.
"But, I'm glad. I'd never ditch these kind people. So if we are ridiculed, so be it! Can't be worse than the orphanage, can it?" Kai shook her head with a small smile.
-You're right.- she gently pushed the blue button on her holo watch, and her skin was replaced to a human liking. Suddenly, the shower stopped and Touma peeked his head out.
"Can I have the blow dryer?" He asked with a grin. Kai sighed and with a grin took the blow dryer to him.
"Thanks!" he shut the door and Kai sat back down. Soon there was the sound of the blow dryer being activated, and a minute or two later it was turned off. A few more minutes passed before Touma stepped out of the bathroom, dressed in a pair of dark blue, baggy, jeans and a medium blue shirt with a white stripe going across the front. His hair was nice and brushed and on his feet were a pair of socks.
"Good morning." He chirped. Kai gave him an annoyed glance.
"Oh come on, cheer up my little fox, it's a new day full of new beginnings and our book bags are right by the door with the others'! we've also been promised a free ride to school by Jean!" he smiled and elbowed her playfully.
"Besides, breakfast is in five minutes, lets high tail it down there!" Mitsuko grinned and hopped up, slipping on her shoes while Touma and Kai took their time and actually tied the laces.
"Hurry up you turtles! I'm hungry!" Mitsuko whined, bouncing. Kai rolled her eyes and Touma just chuckled.
"Alright, do you remember where it is?"
"Of course I do!" Mitsuko stated triumphantly.
-We're going to die- Kai mouthed flatly.
"We are not!" Mitsuko huffed.
"Come on!" Kai and Touma shrugged and followed.
Breakfast was silent for me, as usual. I pretended to listen to the talk, but I just couldn't bring myself to do so. I toyed with my food, and ate it quickly, brining my dish to the kitchen for solace. I even washed it and dried it, putting it back even though I wasn't obligated to.
I just didn't know why I couldn't bring myself to be happy. I as finally going back to public school instead of listening to the instructor that always came into the orphanage and taught.
Today I would be as normal as I could get. Today I would go to classes, my schedule already in my pocket. Today I just might make some more friends!
So why wasn't I happy at all?
I sighed and sat down, plastering a smile to my face as I mouthed something every now and then, Touma or Mitsuko voicing it for me if it wasn't clear.
It made me upset.
I wouldn't fit in, no matter how much I did.
That was because I didn't have a voice, it was the whole problem.
If my vocal chords hadn't been paralyzed then this just would not have happened, and I would be able to be happy and be able to actually communicate with others.
Maybe even Mr. McCoy would be able to find something to cure this skin of mine.
"We'd better get going if we don't want to be late." Scott said suddenly and a few groans went around the table. Professor Xavier, Ms. Ororo, Mr. McCoy, nor Mr. Logan ate breakfast with us in the morning, so no one encouraged us.
"Don't look so stressed." Touma chuckled from beside me. I raised an eyebrow as if to ask 'me?'. He just gave me one of his knowing looks as the three of us got up, Mitsuko bouncing more than usual as she slid her backpack over a shoulder. Touma and I followed at a slower pace.
"Come on, lets get to my car." Jean smiled, pulling up beside us and wiggling her keys with a smile.
"Coolies!" Mitsuko beamed, hyperactive as usual. I could only sigh and cover my mouth as I yawned.
"You're still tired?" Jean asked with a small laugh.
-Low blood pressure-
"Ooh!" she smiled and I gave a weak grin.
"You're still not used to that skin of your, eh stony?" Mitsuko grinned and I mock glared at her for the use of that horrid name.
-Don't use that horrid name!-
"But it suits you my stony friend." Mitsuko grinned.
"Yes, it's funny until she creams you." Touma stated with a smirk. We were not in the garage and Scott was pulling out in his car with Kurt, Evan, Kitty, and himself seated inside.
"Can I get a ride with y'all?" a voice said from behind us and I smiled at Rogue. Somehow, she reminded me of someone I knew, and I liked her.
"Sure, just go ahead and get in the front." Jean smiled. So while Rogue got up in the front because of her ability, we three squeezed rather comfortably in the back. I leaned back and rested by eyes until I heard the engine start.
"So if we can't catch a ride we can go through the woods, right?" Mitsuko asked, leaning forward in the seat.
"Ya, there is a path that leads right back to the mansion." Rogue said. I decided then I liked her accent, it kinda suited her in a peculiar sort of way.
"So, do you guys think you can get to your glasses alright?" Jean asked suddenly, I nodded as she looked at me in the mirror.
"Sure, no problem." Mitsuko grinned, I couldn't help but shake my head in amusement.
-So, you gonna blow up the FACS room today?- She made a pouty face.
"I'm not that bad of a cook."
"I'm sure you'll do just fine." Jan smiled, readjusting her mirror.
"It doesn't take too long to get here does it?" Touma remarked as we pulled into the parking lot and parked.
~*~
Today, I found one thing interesting as we regrouped and began walking inside the building.
People hate mutants.
Rocks, insults, and wads of paper were propelled in a distasteful manner as we walked in.
"We don't want you here!"
"Go back where you belong!"
Funny how they don't even know us, yet hate us. It seems the rest have gotten used to it, but I just can't! I mean, how can Kai but up with this crap? And I thought the orphanage was bad.
"See you later!" is the common phrase among us as we depart for our separate classes. Touma, Kai, and myself stay together. We're supposed to go and meet the principal. I forget what his name is. I think I'll just call him Mr. P. Stands for Mr. Principal. I like it.
Hmm… Kai seems really down and she hangs around Touma. I bet her ears are down, she doesn't like being in public much, and I can't blame her.
Part of me wants to hit her and tell her to smile, while the other half wants me to put my arms around her and comfort her.
"How do you suppose you'll participate in classes?" I finally ask and both look at me. Kai shrugs.
"I'm sure they'll understand." Touma smiles and I can't help but smile too. His smiles are always catching, and before I know it all of us are grinning like idiots as we slowly open the office door and step inside.
Inside said office, there is a long counter with a swinging door attached at the end, a long hallways with the principal's office at one end and the nurse's at the other end. Then, along the hall there are several offices, none of which are labeled. There is a secretary behind the desk, and her hair is long and frizzy, done up in a loose ponytail at the nape of her neck. I can't help but notice her eyes are a beautiful shade of green.
She smiles, one of those 'I don't want to be here but I'll try and be happy' smiles and looks up at us.
"New students?" a nod from Kai, she's so brave.
"Names, please?"
"Mitsuko."
"Touma."
-Kai- she blinks and looks at Kai, and files through her papers.
"Oh, yes. You must be the ones Professor Xavier sent.." her tone holds a bit of malice as she holds out three folders, one for each of us, and each one is labeled. We take our respective folders and she points to the principal's door. His anme is written on it, Mr. Kelly.
So that's his name!
"He'd like to have a word with you."
"Cool." I can't help but grin and open the swingy door and lead the way through, brimming with confidence….
That soon disappears as we step into the principal's office. There, sitting behind a large desk in a chair, is a tall looking man with brown hair and glasses.
"Welcome. Have a seat." We sit down without a word.
"Now, I've already been through this with the other 'special' students." He accents on special.
I feel like hurting him for some reason.
"I will not permit mutant activity on MY school grounds, is that clear?" he snaps.
"Crystal." I squeak.
"Yep, crystal clear sir." Touma smiles a bit.
-Yes. Fine with me.- he stares at Kai and I can tell she wants to shrink up in her seat.
"You think your funny, don't you?" she shakes her head.
"She can't talk, sir." Touma, not too surprisingly, defends her with a determined look on his face, and it looks like Mr. P is getting angry.
"Now, get out of my office."
"Yes sir!" Touma smiles and we get up, and leave the office with relief.
"Man, I am So glad that's over with." I grin and open my folder, taking out my schedule.
"Where is your locker?"
"Um.. down this hall." Touma points down a hall where there are lots of people, but at the end there is a section of locker's with no occupants.
"417?"
-418-
"And 419, what are the odds of that?" I can't help but grin. How perfect can ya get? We slowly walk down the hall, ignore odd glances.
Man I hate being the 'new kid'. It's so annoying!
We look at our schedules for reassurance and open our lockers.
Immediately…. Papers (probably hate notes) fall out, and I can't help but be angry!
"Oh come on!" I yell and throw my backpack down in frustration. I can't help but stare as Kai calmly picks up all three bunches of notes and sticks them in the top shelf of her locker and begins to unload her backpack.
"How can you be so calm?" I can't help but screech.
"You're making a scene…" Touma says quietly, beginning to unload his on backpack. Kai looks at me, and gives me this deep, soul-searching look.
I hate it when she does that!
-It is best to stay calm so they know it doesn't affect you and they'll stop.- I sigh and begin loading my backpack, frustration seems to build in my hands as I shove everything in.
"I hate it when you're right."
"She knows." Touma smiles and takes out his binder. His is black, kai's is blue, and mine is a very cute (and I must say) stylish, pink!
"And here I thought I was going to make some more friends." I can't help but mutter and shut my own locker.
"What do you have first, Kai?"
-Communications with Mrs. Shanks.- she answers in an almost systematic way and I can't help but wonder how she does it. How can she put on a mask like that? I know she cares… I can see it...sorta. And I KNOW Touma can see it and sense it too!
Man, what a nice way to start the day.
"Hey, like, hi!" Kitty waves and jobs over to us, books in hand. I smile and wave.
"He~ey!" I grin and wiggle my eyebrows, making her laugh.
"Like, what classes do you, like, have first?" she asks. I absolutely adore her valley girl accent!
"I have.. let's see.. Mathematics with Mr. Margrave, you?"
"I have the same! Like, wanna walk to calls together?"
"Sure, see you guys whenever I see ya!" I wave goodbye and they wave back and continue to converse.
Looks like they have first period together, that's great!
~*~
Jean and Scott walked side by side to their first period class, which happened to be Trigonometry. Each of them were doing very well in the subject, and were having a nice, peaceful, intelligent conversation when..
"Summers!" Scott inwardly groaned as the football star, Duncan, came jogging towards him and Jean. Jean put a hand on her head as he sidled up to her.
"Hey Jean." He grinned and tried to take her books, but she wouldn't allow it.
"What do you want Duncan?" she desperately tried to keep the annoyance out of her voice as she looked at him and Scott gave her a suffering look and she gently tried to pry herself from the football star's grasp.
"I was wondering… do you have the answers to the Trig test yet?" Jean's temper flared as she forcefully, and non-too gently, pushed away from the blonde.
"I told you time and time again, Duncan! The answer is no!"
"Oh come on.. all you have to do is-"
"I said no!" She said in disgust and turned her back to him, and latched onto Scott's arm. Duncan growled and glared at all the onlookers, who then found something else to do.
What an eventful morning, no?
~~~
School was all-new to me. The halls, the lockers, the faces of (in most cases) angry people. I had most of my classes with Touma and Mitsuko.
Thanks to professor Xavier.
But everyone treated me differently.
I hated being mute.
In each class ridicule followed as the teachers found out I couldn't speak. They'd try and not to laugh.
But I was used to it, and I remained calm.
Too bad Touma and Mitsuko didn't have as much self-control.
By the lunchtime they were pissed.
After lunch, when it was time for study hall, and all throughout the day they got angrier.
Sure, they were used to it, but not to such a degree.
But the worst part was this feeling I had…
It was horrible.
All day I felt as though someone or something were watching me. Waiting for me to make a move, make a mistake or something.
Maybe I was paranoid, or maybe I wasn't, but as the three of us walked through the woods (as we had told Jean we were going to do for exercise that afternoon at lunchtime) that something was lurking behind every bush.
Something was there.
I knew it.
Even if Touma and Mitsuko dismissed it as the jitters.
"So, do you guys like it?" Mitsuko finally asked with a sigh. She meant the school. I couldn't help but shrug.
-It's fine. Good library.-
"I knew you'd say that." Touma chuckled as he wrapped his arms around me. We paused and Mitsuko giggled as she held her hands up in the shape of a picture frame.
"It's a Kodak moment." She sighed.
-What do you think about the school, Touma?- I asked his and stared up at him, whilst cupping his cheek with my hand. The edgy feeling I had was still with me, but it seemed farther away now… strange.
I quickly shook the thought out of my head and paid attention to Touma.
"It's o.k.… be better if we were actually excepted." We resumed walking.
"I know.. how can you be so calm about it?" Mitsuko sighed and stared at me with her inquisitive eyes. I sighed and looked skyward, as if expecting an answer to rain down upon my head.
Hm.. funny thought.
I returned my attention to Mitsuko and couldn't help but smile.
-Practice- she let loose a laugh. I always like when Mitsuko laughs, it's like ringing a crystal bell. So clear, crisp, and clean.
"You always say stuff like that," she grins and ruffles my hair; I send her a mild glare and straighten it once more, and relax into Touma's arms again.
I always like it when we walk and he holds me, even if it is from behind.
Suddenly, I hear a twig crack, and I turn around, facing the direction it came from. Touma and Mitsuko blink, confused, but I don't catch a word of what they are saying as I quickly charge into the brush.
I catch a glimpse of a large metal ball shooting through the air and I blink in a stupor.
"What the heck was that?" Touma had seen it too, and I shrug, it beats me.
"We aren't going to tell the professor." Mitsuko butts in.
And that is that.
Kai blinked as she looked around the danger room. Homework done, Professor Xavier had telepathically called them to him.
"Come with me." And with no further explanation they had followed. He then explained everything. He wanted to see the extent of their abilities, and was now explaining the other reason.
"-It's of the utmost importance to be ready and prepared…." Kai tried to pay attention, but her head was still in a whirl from earlier events, and she tugged on her uniform embarrassingly. Mitsuko was in a skin tight, black uniform with an 'X' across her chest and aqua stripes swirled their way around her limbs and body, and her hair was done up in a high pony tail as well. Touma on the other hand wore a skintight outfit as well. His had earthly shades over it and no real design. He to had an 'X' on his arm.
Kai, on the other hand wore something totally different. She wore something she told Professor Xavier she'd be comfortable, but flexible in. She knew she stood out in it, but she just wasn't a person who liked to show her body off. So, she wore a dark kimono top that tied at little bellow her stomach with a dark gray sash. Her pants were of samurai style as well, and like her kimono top, were black. She also wore a pure black body suit like the rest underneath, and her arms were incased in leather coverings. Above her heart and on her back were deep red 'X's.
Code names, too, had been given out. She now knew not only every students' real name, but also their code names. Kurt was 'Nightcrawler', Kitty was 'Shadowcat', Jean was just 'Jean, Scott was 'Cyclops', Evan was 'Spike', Rogue was 'Rogue, Ororo was (as they already knew) 'Storm, Mr. McCoy 'Beast, Mr. Logan 'Wolverine', and Professor Xavier was just 'Professor X'.
Of course, their code names had been given, and were easy to remember. Mitsuko would be called the 'Torrent', Touma would be 'Healer', and Kai would be known as 'Stone' (for various reasons).
Kai was now in deep thought. They would be fighting.
Again.
Would it be like old times?
She suddenly found Touma shaking her.
"Stone? Stone!" His voice was getting more and more strained. It became apparent that she had become so deep her stupor that she had nearly fainted and was now limp in his arms, with a cool hand to her forehead. She blinked dizzily and righted herself.
"Are you alright?" Professor Xavier asked, trying to prod into her mind, which she now kept blank. She nodded and rubbed her head.
-Sorry-
"We can do this another day."
-I'm fine Professor.- she smiled reassuringly, and pointedly ignored Torrent, who gave her one of her 'looks' that said she better not be lying or else.
"Alright, I'll start the mission as soon as your ready." And soon the professor was gone, he had retreated to the corridor in which spectators would watch their every move and every ability.
"I-I can do this.. I just have to think…" Torrent muttered to herself, a small ball of water already getting ready in her hand. Kai gave her an encouraging smile and then sighed, relaxing and concentrating.
"Mission begin." And the world swayed around them. What had just been a perfectly descent room now became a battleground in which sheer rock faces and cliffs formed and a blood red sky appeared.
'Wow…" no sooner had Torrent said that than a blast had been fired their way, and all three dodged with a mix of fear and excitement in their eyes.
Healer was the first one targeted, and he panted as he ran and dodged, slipping several times on the rock outfaces as the guns, charged with colored paint, flew at him in a furry. He narrowly ducked under a large metal bar that was meant to clothesline him when another shot narrowly missed his back, he was saved by Stone covering for him, helping him duck into a duck and roll.
"Tha…" he trailed off seeing her eyes. Her eyes were glazed over and she looked to be someplace else-and he knew where that place was. He had seen that look only once before, and he never wanted to see it again.
"Stone!" she didn't answer him-she was too far-gone. She was in another place, another time, another fight. She was as lost to the world as the once metallic room was.
She was so far away…. And in his stupor Healer was the first to be hit and removed from play.
He met the professor.
"Sorry…" he said rubbing the back of his head whilst observing the room. Cyclops was manning controls, Storm, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Spike were all watching.
"Think nothing of it, you tried your best." Professor Xavier smiled and he went back to watching.
"Yo!" Spike motioned him over to a window and he sat down.
"Nice run, reminds me of my first try." Spike grinned and Touma nodded tiredly.
"What made you hesitate?"
"Nothing…" Healer trailed off absentmindedly and returned his attention to the window, but was abruptly brought back when Torrent entered and sat down next to him, paint covering her back too.
"Nice run?" Healer offered.
"Remind me to never mock a paintball…" she said with a lopsided grin. Healer just rolled his eyes and put a hand over her back where the paintball had hit, he sensed a bruise.
"Just a bruise, pretty simple to fix." She smiled and closed his eyes. In his mind her could see her back, and he went further, diving deep into the tissue. He slowly drove away the bacteria that were trying to force themselves through a few minor cuts and began to mend the damaged skin and return the blood flow.
When he opened his eyes he blinked when he saw Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Spike crowded around him, and Torrent looking at him, shocked.
"What?" he asked suspiciously. His whole body tingled for some strange reason.
"You were, like, glowing!" Shadowcat exclaimed in excitement. Healer blinked and then grinned sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Yeah.. I tend to do that." He laughed nervously and suddenly Torrent gave a cry and fell back from her chair when blood splattered onto the window she was sitting in front of and warning sirens began to scream in an annoyingly high-pitched fashion. A few moments Stone ricocheted off said window, smearing the blood even more.
"Her blood pressure is rising." Cyclops yelled and stopped unplugging tings to shut down the mission when Professor Xavier held up a hand.
"I can't find her mind…" he said at last and there was a deadly silence.
"Wh-what do you mean?" Torrent asked, in shock.
"She's too far gone…" Healer suddenly stated. Professor Xavier motioned for him to continue.
"She's remembering an old fight we had…" Torrent caught on and stood up, covering her mouth in shock.
"What's going on?" Spike asked in bafflement.
"It was a week before we went to the orphanage…." Torrent began, Healer now sitting, holding his head in his hands in memory.
The night was cool, crisp, and dreary. No one in their right state of mind would venture out-but three such figures were forced out into it. They had been cornered in a alley way by a group of men, each held a gun or knife in their hand. A small girl stood up to them, her face contorted in anger whilst two people cowered, one glowing green whilst the other cried and screamed for it all to go away, blood soaking the ground.
The girl scowled and stood her ground, light flickering off her stone covered body and her wings flapped slightly in agitation behind her.
-So… you are the ones..- she mouthed with evident hatred in her voice as she slowly drew a beat up sword from it's sheath.
The five men before her laughed.
"You gonna try to beat us with that rusted up sword?" one laughed heartily and aimed his gun.
"Say your prayers kid!" he shot, and the bullet went clean through the girl's leg, she cried out and before you knew it, she had charged, her wings giving her boosted power and she ran the man clean through. He made a pitiful attempt to kill her, only shooting her once more-this time through the arm. She scowled and took her sword from dieing body and turned. Her eyes glowed red and she was angry.
Very angry.
She sounded a mighty battle cry and began to deal out each man's death, being shot repeatedly, yet only her arm, leg, and her side were actually penetrated.
"K-Kai…" and the little girl slowly sank to her knees and fainted, her wings diving down into her back.
Stone barely noticed that she was the only one in the danger room now. Her wings were out, and she was angry. She propelled herself off another rock face and did a flip in the air- two round guns on either side of her readied to fire, and just as they cocked their guns, she stopped flapping her wings and let herself start to fall, and letting the guns destroy each other.
She looked at the approaching ground and a meter away from crashing she unfolded her wings and did a roll, letting the dust fly into the air as she flew a foot above the ground. She scowled at the canon before her and her right arm surged with energy. She could picture the sword in her hand, and she reeled up as a flood of black, deep blue, and crimson energy swirled from her hand in the shape of a sword. She flew sideways and slashed the apparatus apart, surging upward as it exploded.
Sword still in hand, and wings still flapping, she twisted to another oblique position and began running across the side of the window, narrowly missing paintballs as they splattered said windows.
She wasn't aware of Torrent's scream or the blood that now spurted from old battle scars and her wings as she ricocheted off the now blood-spattered window and twisted into a roll, and ricocheted off another airborne gun, making sure to kick it repeatedly as she did so, and she bounced off of another, sending it flying into a machine gun-both burst into an array of flames. She then slashed through another bulky gun, twirling in the air to come spiraling down on another gun, a paintball grazing her cheek.
By now she panted heavily and was beginning to tire and come out of her trance.
Suddenly, she heard a voice.
"Kid!" she saw a blurred picture of a man in orange and black that was crossing boundaries with the last man she had killed that night.
Suddenly she had been latched onto by a strong force and realized she was in someone's embrace. Images flashed through her mind and she began to thrash wildly. But suddenly she felt pinned by a stronger force and her knee's crumbled, and she felt her ears being petted.
"Kai.. come on can you hear me?" a nice voice.. was her first impression as her eyes slowly became unglazed, and became aware of not only her surroundings, but the pain coursing through her body, as if every wound wanted a piece of her again. She tossed her head around. She was so hot.. she was burning.. it hurt…
She suddenly became aware of looking into Professor Xavier's eyes. His eyes were concerned and a little bit frightened; and for great reason! She had nearly leveled the danger room in her pent up rage. He probed her mind, searching for answers to why she had acted so, but found nothing. She couldn't let them, and it took almost very ounce of her strength to keep him out. But one sentence she slipped on was 'I am burning.. too hot.. too hot..'
"Torrent, she says she's burning."
"Right." Torrent couched down by Stone and gently made a ball of water appear in her hands and she pressed it against Stone's skin, which steamed. She frowned and bit her lip, closing her eyes and making a large torrential downpour begin atop both Stone and Healer. Whilst Stone's skin steamed, Healer's did nothing, and there were strangely no burns.
Kai… Kai what happened? Can you tell me?
Professor Xavier gently prodded into Kai's mind, even though he already knew what had happened that night-having gotten the story from both Touma and Mitsuko.
He got no coherent answer, only a few words.
Those words being 'anger', 'pain', 'Mitsuko', 'rape', and 'rage'.
She had been angry.. so very angry. And she had killed them, and she was pained by that.
She never wanted to kill.
Torrent gasped for air and her water slowly dried up to a small trickle.
"You should rest, I can do the rest." Storm nodded and she nodded wearily and stood up shakily.
"Kitty, Kurt, please help Mitsuko to her room."
"Vright."
"Like, sure." Kitty let Mitsuko lean on her while Kurt helped by teleporting. Touma continued to pet Kai's ears and Storm raised her hands to the sky, a small cloud gathering above both people and a steady rain began to fall, help Kai's still too hot to be normal skin cool down.
"Xavier.. what exactly happened?" Wolverine asked with a small snarl.
"Exactly what was bound to happen. Pent up memories are slowly taking what little control on her powers she has left. I think she's evolving." Professor Xavier folded his hands and rested his chin atop them.
"It was an impressive run, kid." Wolverine growled in Kai's general direction as he too left.
"Evan, I think it's best if you leave for now?"
"Right Auntie O!" Spike grinned and waved.
"See ya later, dude" Touma nodded at him weakly and gently adjusted Kai so she (an himself) would be more comfortable.
The downpour slowly dried up as Touma sighed, kai's temperature had gone back down to normal, even though she was barely awake, and her eyes were only half open.
"Touma, why don't you try to heal her, it seems she has some minor injuries." Professor Xavier observed. Touma nodded and slowly closed his eyes.
He was in a dark place. He could barely see what was around him for a moment until he adjusted. Before him was Kai, and he could see all her injuries, and they glowed, calling out softly, waiting for him to help and coax them along.
He took a deep breath and dove downward into the loudest calling.
All at once he was surrounded by a deep crimson, blue, and black fire and he gulped. Kai never liked people inside, and she was a pain and a half to heal.
This injury, however, would take a lot so he sat down in the middle of her upper arm and began putting it together as it was in pieces. Slowly he collected the shards and placed them back together, and then he began to wrap tendrils of emerald fire around them to bind them. Then, he wrapped bigger, more powerful cords of his emerald fire around all parts of the broken bone and mended each and every crevice and crack.
Then came the easy part, he fixed up all the muscle tissue, and as soon as he was done-he was thrown out.
He smiled, he forgot how rude Kai could be sometimes.
He searched kai's body, fixing up the minor details such as bruises and scrapes, all the way up to gashes.
Then he came upon her right arm. It had a long gash, and black blood seeped out of it. A soft voice begged him to heal it, and he tried, but as soon as he stepped foot inside a dark, inky black, creature came upon him, threatening to tear him limb from limb and devour him alive.
He immediately scurried back out, and was surprised when it healed all by itself.
By now he was dead tired and suddenly Kai was before him, some nasty cuts and bruises still on her and her right arm rebandaged. She looked at him with a soft look.
-Go… you are far to tired.- and then she gently pushed him and he was thrown back into the comforting crevices of his own bodily cavern.
Touma opened eyes and gasped, breathless and wheezing heavily. Kai's eyes were closed and Storm was now helping to support him.
"You've done enough." Professor Xavier said reassuringly and he nodded hazily, looking at Kai carefully. Her ribs were still bruised; she had a few cuts, bruises, and scrapes, and a gash that would probably need stitches later on.
He wished he could have done more.
"Professor I…"
"It's quite alright. It was bound to happen Touma." Charles Xavier rubs his temples.
"I couldn't even penetrate he mind." Touma smiles, and stands on his won, gaining a little strength back.
"Don't worry, I couldn't heal her as good as I should have either…" he trailed off and then gently picked her up.
"Did you… did you know?" he asks suddenly, turning innocent eyes open Professor Xavier and Storm.
"I assure you Touma, if we would have know we would have never let this progress." Storm says softly and puts a hand on his shoulder. He nods and smiles a little.
"I'll show you the way to the medical wing." Professor Xavier says kindly.
"Storm, if you wouldn't mind, would you address the students and make sure they know what's going on."
"Of course, Charles." With a flap of her capes, Ororo is gone, and finally, Touma and Professor Xavier exit the danger room.
TBC!
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