IMPORTANT!!!! Regarding the review about other mutants, no, the newer recruits like.. um..um.. I think it's the ice dude.. um.. Bobby! Yeah… Bobby, well those people wont be in this ficci because, quite frankly, I'd probably make them SO OOC because I don't know them that well. But, the Brotherhood, Magneto, and Mystic WILL be in here.
IMPORTANT! Does anyone know ALL the names of Magneto's crew? I know Remy, AKA Gambit, Sabertooth, and.. that's it …. *sweatdrop* sorry? LOL! I just need the tin dude, the freaky flame person, and I think that's it…dunno.
IMPORTANT!!! Gosh, a lot of these messages.. anyways! Did anyone else laugh when Gambit told BOTH Wolverine and Sabertooth to jump off the mountain? You know, when they are chasing Apocalypse?
O.K., on with the ficci.
The hooded figure slowly walked down the unlit street. All was quiet that night, and it paused before large steal gates.
The figure was soon revealed to be a young, blue-eyed, child with long brunette hair. She was shortish in stature and her face was blank, while her eyes held true pain deep inside. She held up her hand a small ball of florescent light formed in her palm, illuminating a small area around her allowing her to see the small call button, of which she walked over to and pressed.
Immediately a voice answered.
"Hello?" a deepish voice answered.
"My name is Charlene, may I talk to professor Xavier please?" she sugar coated every word as much as possible as she drew up her hood and let the small ball of light distinguish itself.
She stepped back as the creaky metal doors opened and she began to walk softly, and as calmly as possible.
~*~*~*~
Professor Xavier sighed as he looked in on the recovery room. Touma was still in there, and held bags under his eyes. He had been there ever since she had been placed inside and had flat out refused to move. Professor Xavier being who he was, could not bring himself to use the force he knew would be necessary, so out here he sat, wallowing in the guilt. He should have let Scott turn the mission off.
Kai had been going in and out of hot flashes, some lasting longer than others, so they had settled for putting her in a tube of water they sometimes used for Logan's healing process, and had hooked her up to the necessary oxygen and heart rate units.
Professor Xavier was startled out of his thoughts when He sensed Logan coming.
"Someone's here to see ya Charles." Logan said, leaning against the wall.
"I know." Professor Xavier sighed, he had sensed the slight use of mutant powers, but had been to caught up in thought to really investigate further. He was about to turn around and leave when Logan brought him to a halt by speaking aloud.
"Don't beat yourself up so much. Kid's got a lot of anger. 'sides, would have done the same thing in your place." And then Logan turned on heal and left, heavy footsteps slowly fading down the hall.
Professor Xavier sighed once more and continued his trail to the living room where he knew his guest would be waiting.
When he entered he saw a hooded and cloaked figure sitting on the couch daintily, with only Storm present. The students had gone asleep already-and it really was late, how late? He didn't exactly know at the moment, but a quick glance at the clock told him it was well past eleven.
When he entered Storm and the mysterious girl looked up at him, the girl, Charlene, stood up and greeted him with a slight handshake.
You can leave now, Storm.
The professor told Storm mentally, and without complaint or compliment she left Professor Xavier with the strange newcomer who again sat back down.
Professor Xavier was on edge though, no matter how hard he tried he could not probe this girl's mind. She took off her hood and casually pulled her hair from the confines of it. She smiled calmly.
"You are afraid of me?" she asked, amusement with her voice.
"No, of course not." Professor Xavier smiled a bit.
"May I ask your name?"
"My name is Charlene."
"Ah, Charlene. Could you perhaps tell me what has brought you here?" he folded his hands and rested his chin on them.
"Of course, it's only right for you to know…" her kindness seemed to strain and held up a hand, letting a ball of light form there. The incandescent object slowly rose to the air as if being pulled by indistinguishable string and held there for a few seconds before she moved her index finger and let it crash into her palm, dematerializing. She smirked and stood up.
"Of course…" her body began to glow a soft yellow as she gradually materialized into the couch, but reappeared a few seconds later with a lost television remote in her hand, and a smirk on her face.
"My other name… is Illumination." She smiled.
"I see. What else brings you here? Do you wish to learn more about the extent of your abilities or…"
"Me?" she laughed a bit.
"Oh yes Professor Xavier, I do wish to learn more about my powers, and so do you. You are wondering why you can't probe my mind." She said getting up and getting closer.
"To tell you the truth, I'm here for revenge."
"Who are you after.. who sent you?" Professor Xavier narrowed his eyes a bit as she advanced a little and started to glow once more.
"So many questions. I'll answer the obvious…" she smirked.
"Don't even TRY to call for help Xavier." Her eyes flashed yellow and the doors slammed shut, and then locked.
"I posses an advanced X gene that was given to me by synthetic implantation." She smirked.
"As for who sent me… I'd have to say I was sent by no one… and as to who I am after." She leaned in close and whispered something into his ear, and swiftly brought an ether soaked rag from the confines of her cloak.
Professor Xavier gasped in shock at the unsolicited attack, and the strong fumes enveloped his lungs, and he fell limp in his wheel chair.
Charlene smirked and resealed the cloth into a bag that had unceremoniously dropped to the floor and placed it back under her cloak where, along with other various chemical soaked rags, were the gleaming tops of swords. Each had an Abbreviation on them. C. S. Honshu, and the other read K.A. Honshu.
"I'm coming for you…" she flicked her hand and the door opened, and it nearly fell off its hinges as it obeyed her notion and she began to run swiftly own the halls.
She could sense where her target was, and her eyes flashed yellow again. She rolled her eyes when alarms started going off. Obviously enough she hadn't drugged Xavier enough.
~*~*~
Touma sighed as he looked at Kai. He had been sitting for hours upon hours and there was still no change.
"Kai.." he sighed as he ran his hands along the glass one more time before turning to go to his shared room to sleep.
What stopped him was a shrill, obnoxious beeping, and he turned around just in time to see Kai's brown eyes shoot open. She looked around dizzily for a minute before noticing Touma and beginning to gently tap the wires from her.
"Kai! Don't you're still…" he raised the lid and took off the oxygen mask. "…hurt…"
She looked at him and slowly climbed out, immediately leaning on the wall for support and coughing. He gently brought her into his arms and was surprised to feel her skin warm to the touch, and rapidly growing hotter.
Before he knew it he had to step away and shield his eyes as a piercing light shown from her body. The light died down and there she stood, gasping for air, but totally dry.
'Kai what's wrong?" Touma tried to get nearer but she pushed him away.
"Kai!" she turned to look at him tears of pain dripping down the sides of her face.
-She's here.- Touma took a step back and blinked.
"Who's here?!" he screamed.
-Charlene- she opened the door and forced her away out just as sirens began to scream. Her sensitive ears could pick up doors being slammed open and she could just faintly hear footsteps coming her way.
"Kid!" she blinked hazily back at Logan, Touma not far behind him.
"What arte you doing?" she was dimly aware that he now had a hold of her shoulders and was shaking her slightly, trying to get her to wake up from this dream she had settled in. She made small noises at the back of her throat and he finally stopped.
-What… happened?- she mouthed nodding her head up at one of the red lights that had come to play when the sirens had.
"We're under attack kid." He searched her face for any sign that she had comprehended what he said when suddenly a large ball of light knocked him away and Kai fell to the ground. She blinked and looked up dizzily to see a girl surrounded in light, her eyes narrowed, and her auburn hair swirling around her.
-Char…Charlene?- she asked, almost to herself. Both looked at each other.
"Charlene!" Touma yelled and she turned, eyes glowing as she sent a tight weave of light at him to block him and Logan from interfering. Logan began to snarl in animalistic fashion and brought out his claws, trying to slash through the light,
But nothing can make it through light, can it?
An optic beam ricocheted off the light shield and Charlene gave an angry cry and glared at Scott who had switched his glasses with his visor. Jean was behind him.
"What business do you have here?" the latter asked, fingers to her temples, ready at any given moment to deflect a blast or send an offensive one at their attacker who only looked to be thirteen!
"Keep out of this!" Charlene raised her other hand and sent a corresponding light shield in their direction.
All was silent inside the two protective barriers and Kai blinked at Charlene, cheeks still flushed with heat and fever.
"You never came back!" Charlene screamed and hit her across the jaw when she tried to regain her feet. Kai immediately fell back down and received a kick in her still bruised ribs, causing blood to spurt from her mouth and her eyes to widen.
Charlene scowled and reached under her cloak to bring out a small package. She threw it at Kai's feet, and the latter's eyes widened in shock as the leather trench coat unrolled to reveal a sword, her old names graved upon them.
"Pick it up!" Charlene screamed, throwing off her battered hood and cloak to reveal a black leather outfit and a belt in which everything was held. Including a sword of her own, instead of dark like the one she had thrown, it was bright. She gripped the hilt and pulled the sword from its sheath.
"Stand!" she ordered, and Kai slowly did as told, grabbing both leather trench coat and sword. Tears began to make watery paths along her cheeks as an image flashed before her.
It was raining… but both of them were still outside. Both of them loved the rain. It gave them a chance to ignore the fighting going on inside. It gave them a chance to be children, not mistakes.
"No, not like that, like this." The older one said, smiling a little as the rain danced paths along the stones on her body as she showed the smaller girl beside her how to draw the sword again.
"It must be quick, you have to surprise your opponent, and feel the power beneath your fingers." She demonstrated again by drawing the sword and cutting a stick in half.
"Now you try."
"Kay!" blue-green eyes shinning the younger drew the sword and snapped the smaller twig in half, the sheer weight of the sword making it fall to the ground. The younger began to sniffle, but the older girl wrapped her arms around her.
"No tears…" the little girl sniffled one last time.
"Kay."
"Wanna try again?" a perkily nodded head and the lessons resumed.
Kai slowly folded the trench coat and let it drop numbly to the floor. Once more she slowed her pace, her vision being blurred by tears as she tried to tie to sword to her side like she did so many years ago. She let it rest at her side and looked down at her little sister who scowled.
"Why did you leave me?" Charlene tried to calm her breathing, which had become an erratic pant. When Kai made no move to answer she screamed.
"Tell me why!? Why did you leave me?!" tears now began to make slow, treks across her face.
Kai began to shake.
-I…I didn't..-
"You didn't what?" Kai couldn't hold it back she began to beat upon the wall, throwing her self against it and opening her mouth, letting inaudible screams come from her unusable throat.
She soon became bloodied and she slowly let her hand make a bloody path down it's side.
"Is it too much? To much to admit that you left your own sister with complete strangers?! Too much to admit you abandoned me?!" Charlene screamed and Kai began to try and calm herself as she looked at Charlene.
"If you wont answer me then give me the honor of killing you!" Charlene drew her sword and held it at ready position, but Kai would make no move, she just stood there.
"Well?!" she raised her hands to about her chest, and then slowly let then rest behind her back.
"COWARD!" Charlene gathered a weave of light into her hand and shot I, sending Kai through the wall, and sprawling into the next room where Storm, Beast, Nightcrawler, and Shadowcat were waiting. Charlene let out a high-pitched scream of rage as she dodged a lightening bolt.
"Kai!!!" she roared, eyes flashing as Kai slowly stood up, shrugging off the offered help she received from Shadowcat. Storm put a hand on her shoulder but removed it when a searing heat burnt through her. She held her hand in pain and watched.
"Stone, vhat are you doing?" Night crawler asked. She turned.
-My fight.- she said through glazed eyes as she slowly raised a hand and sent a small blast of heat, singing his fur and sending him flying.
"Kurt!" Shadowcat yelled and ran to help him phase through the wreckage that had landed on top of him.
Charlene smirked and let light engulf her as she rose to the air, and shot through the roof.
"Kai wait!" Touma yelled through a pant as he ran through the broken down door. She looked at him.
-Sora- her dragon wings shot out of her back and she winced, grinding her teeth together, giving off an excellent show of her small fangs. It took plenty of effort just to support them at this point, and she gasped, and shot to the sky.
"X-men, let's go!" Scott came into the room and led the charge outside.
When they arrived, they arrived into the pouring down rain and raging storm.
"Storm, can you, like, stop it?" Kitty asked, supporting Kurt who was still weak from the blast he had received.
Storm gave no response and began to levitate, her eyes growing silver as she did so. She raised her hands to the heavens and closed her eyes, trying to push back the storm.
Scott was ready to try and aim at Charlene but a heavy hand on his shoulder stopped him.
"Kid's just angry." It was Logan, and he narrowed his eyes as he looked at the sky.
"Where's the professor?"
"Medical ward, he took a heavy dose of ether." Logan snarled and fought the urge to release his claws; instead he only snarled and let his hand drop from Scott's shoulder.
"Where's Mitsuko?" Evan suddenly asked.
"Ah' don't know.." Rogue looked around and met Jean's gaze.
"I don't know…" Jean trailed off and closed her eyes, searching for said girl.
"She's on her balcony." She turned her gaze to the balcony in which a blue aurora was coming from. Suddenly a fierce wind swept through the estate's grounds, threatening to blow them all away. Each person looked up to see a clash between light and dark aurora's.
Kai stared at Charlene who floated in ready position. She tried to wipe at her eyes and when she was finished more tears blurred her vision. She reached down and gripped the sword hilt in her right hand, whilst the other held onto the sheath.
"So you're going to fight me now?" Charlene asked, eyes narrowed in anger.
"TAKE THIS!" she screamed and propelled herself foreword, making a downward strike that was blocked when Kai drew her own weapon. Charlene scowled and screamed a battle cry, lifting her katana higher in the air to make a diagonal downward thrust what was again blocked when Kai used an upward blocking motion. Charlene smirked.
"Hoped you'd do that." She switched positions with her sword and made a front strike upwards that grazed kais right cheek, making a cut that ran a little under her eye in a transverse fashion down her cheek where it stopped, forming a triangular cut. Kai winced and blocked another blow from her sister, but her sword faltered and a similar cut was made parallel to the other on the other side of her face, as she turned her face so.
"You're not even trying!" Charlene changed tactics and let a weave of golden strands settle upon her sword as she slashed, sending Kai flying to the ground. The later made a strangled voice as her sister flew into action, kneeing her throat.
It was like everything had frozen, as the broken part of Kai's voice box slowly snapped into place, and for the first time in a long time, Kai let out an audible scream as blood spurted from her throat.
And optical blast then hit Charlene square in the back, right between the shoulder blades. Both sisters slumped on each other.
"D-Damn it…" Charlene's eyes rolled back after she sent a glare at Scott.
Kai blinked wearily as the rain cleared even more and she met Touma's blurry face.
"Kai.. Kai hold on…. Don't go to sleep…" syllables formed on the tip of kai's tongue and through the pain in her throat, she managed her first raspy word ever spoke in about ten years.
"T…T…Tou…ma…A…ai shiteru.." she whispered and then all faded into black.
Black. Everything was black. Why was everything black? Kai blinked wearily at the scene before her. She could hear two someone's crying…the crying was so familiar. She suddenly found herself drifting inside a large warehouse. Technical equipment was set up, and there was quite a commotion going about in back. She floated closer to the noise and started to cry, covering her ears. Why was she crying? Why did it hurt her ears? Why was the sound coming through STILL?! She suddenly found herself floating above a table; two children were on it, crying. She gasped softly. Could it be?
On one side of the table was a girl-child no more than 1 years old; whilst on the other side was her. It was a three-year-old Kai.
And she was human.
The older Kai began to try and shield them from the probing hands and robotically operated arms. She tried to shield her former self and her little sister to no avail, these things just went right through her. She tried to turn away, but found she couldn't. She watched in horror as two injections were brought into her line of vision. They were filled with a pure, glowing substance.
"Is it ready?" a man asked.
"Only one way to find out." A woman answered as she gently held the crying one year old in her arms while the man injected the serum in. The baby's pitch reached a new level as a golden light burst from her tiny little body and then she slowly quieted and fell into a deep haze ridden sleep.
The woman and the man frowned scornfully and laid her on the table with disdain.
"How do we know it worked?"
"We don't, not until it emerges." Kai shook her head and started to punch the woman who she recognized as her mother came towards her younger self.
-No! NOO!- she tried to scream but an invisible hand clamped onto her mouth and she was forced to watch again and cry.
Her smaller self began to kick and scream as the woman picked her up and forcefully held her arm out to the man she knew would turn out to be her father. The serum was injected, but no light glowed. And no screams of higher pitch arose.
"She's a dud."
"Try the next one honey." Her mother coaxed and the man picked up a new syringe filled with a dark blue glowing liquid. With no thoughts or remorse her mother held up the child's arm again, not bothering to even comforting the screaming infant.
The serum was injected, and no sooner had it happened than the mother dropped little Kai onto the table as a searing heat began to envelope from her body. Little Kai screamed and held her head, and began to stagger about blindly, crashing into technical equipment and slamming herself against the walls.
"She's out of control!"
"She's a monster!"
Kai watched as her younger self's skin began to turn the pale blue-gray it remains to be today, and began to sob as the young Kai's screams got louder and louder as rocks slowly began to form upon her skin. She suddenly ran into a red, hot, iron.
Kai began to thrash about in the invisible hands' hold.
The dragon! The dragon! She wanted to scream. It was how it happened. She had been burnt!
Kai rested weakly against the hands that now seemed to try and comfort her as the rest of scene took place.
-This is how it happened.- she cried.
Suddenly she was somewhere else. In a room with no windows, a room full of ancient things. The walls were covered in hieroglyphics. The room itself was covered in tatami mats and held a futon to sleep on in the corner. There was ancient Egyptian jewelry, as well and Japanese hair things on an old wooden dresser. There were large shelves full of child hoods things, and on the ceiling were posters of her childhood. There were drawings on a table in the middle of the room, and on another, much larger shelf, was a display of all her dreams, captured in crystal globes.
She remembered this place, she had gone here every lonely night, every sad moment, and every time she wanted to get away.
It was her happy place.
The invisible hands laid her to rest on the futon and she heard to door close.
No one could get her here.
This was her safe place.
She lay there for hours it seemed, just looking, not even getting up when the door finally opened. She sat up dizzily and blinked at what she saw.
-Professor..-She mouthed in shock. What could he be doing in her mind? How could he get in? He wasn't aloud in. no one was, no one except her.
The babble continued mentally as Professor Xavier continued inside. He looked around. He was glowing an unnaturally white light as he gently drew himself to where Kai was now curled up with her knees to her chest, shoulders shaking.
"Kai… Kai can you hear me?" a headshake.
"I saw what happened Kai." Professor Xavier said softly, trying to coax her out of this depression.
"Touma knows. Everyone knows, and they are sorry-" he gasped as the scene changed, and Kai was no longer with him.
"Kai?!" he called out, and suddenly she was beside him, no, she was walking past him.
"Kai!" she followed her into a room, Charlene was sitting there, sleeping. Kai took a knife from the bedside table and, to Xavier's surprise, stabbed her sister.
"I killed Charlene." Charles Xavier had no time to answer, h was thrown back to the room he had previously inhabited before the new train of thought had enveloped Kai's brain.
-I killed Charlene. She's dead. I shouldn't have left her at the Orphanage in Minnesota. I had no choice. She was small. She needed a family. She couldn't live on the streets. She was sick. I'm so sorry.- Professor Xavier shook his head and slammed a fist down on his wheelchair. He was loosing her.
"NO!" She looked up startled, stopping the repetition of the same thought.
"You did not kill you're sister. She is fine, she is recovering back in the real world. Where you are supposed to be!" he accented on the last part, trying to get it clear to her.
-No.. no I killed her. I drove her angry. My fault.. my fault!-Kai exclaimed beating herself on the cheat.
"No, no your fault. It's not your fault at all. Come back, come back with me and I can show you, she's just fine. You are too…you're heart is stopping, please Kai! Don't do this to yourself!"
Kai looked up suddenly. She heard voice.
-Touma…- she found herself taking Professor Xavier's hand and suddenly she was spinning, spinning so very fast.
Professor Xavier woke up from his trance with a startled yell. Logan caught his wheel chair before it could go flying.
"Take it easy there Charles."
"Did you manage it?" Ororo asked, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I did the best I could."
"Then that should be enough." Ororo smiled.
"I'll tell them they can see her."
"Thank you Ororo." Professor Xavier turned his attention to he bed he was currently positioned in front of.
"I shouldn't have pushed her."
"It's fine, now we know what not to do, and what happened. Give the kid time to recover and she should be fine." Logan said, giving his two cents worth before high tailing it out of there.
Professor Xavier again returned his attention to Kai.
"Please…" it was silent, but suddenly the heart monitors picked up and brown eyes snapped open, but then relaxed, barely open at half way. Kai blearily looked towards Professor Xavier, and mouthed;
-Thank you..-
"You're welcome." It was quiet for a few minutes before Kai finally gained enough strength and looked beside her. Charlene was still unconscious, and slept there-restrained of course.
Suddenly there was a loud squeal and Mitsuko launched herself at Kai, who gave a soft cry of pain, so Mitsuko let up and stood.
"Kai-chan!" she said, wiping at her tear stained face, Professor Xavier quietly made his way out, passing Touma who had a vase of flowers, and he smiled a bit at Professor Xavier who nodded and he too went inside.
Professor Xavier needed sleep. He'd probe Charlene mind later; right now, he didn't have the energy to do so.
Touma gently kissed Kai's forehead and set the vase down.
"I hope you don't mind, I healed you a bit more." Kai smiled wearily and nodded.
"Now you get to look foreword to only having a busted up throat, a swollen up eye, a row of thirteen stitches, and a few broken ribs." Mitsuko beamed. Kai tried to laugh, but reached up to grab her throat in pain. She met bandages.
"There is a chance you'll be able to talk again, once Touma regains his powers."
"You did talk to me before you went out though.." Touma smiled and brushed her sweaty bangs from her face as Mitsuko went to retrieve some water and a bottle to put it in. He sat down and gently petted her, and paid extra attention to scratching her ears, which she sighed in content to. Getting her ears scratched may seem stupid, but it was pure content for her. She sighed softly and looked at Touma and with her eyes, asked him. He sighed and stopped petting to lay a gentle kiss on the tip of her nose.
"Yes. We all know." She looked down but he tilted her chin up and made her look at him with her one undamaged eye.
"It's o.k. It's for the good anyway." He waited until she nodded to smile and plant gentle kisses on her face, but stopped when she tried to giggle and only got pain.
"Sorry." With her eyes she told him it was fine.
"Back with drinks!" Mitsuko laughed and set three glasses of water down on the bed side table. Kai made a face and Mitsuko wiggled her eyebrows.
"I flavored yours Ms. I-hate-things-without-taste!" Mitsuko grinned and gave the to her friend who sipped it contently through the straw so she wouldn't spill. Once finished Touma took it and she leaned back, sighing.
-How long have I been out?- she flinched, it even hurt to mouth things.
"About a day, kitten." Touma smiled and Kai winced, blushing at the nickname, while Mitsuko grinned wickedly.
"So.. Kitten is the new nickname?" she taunted, trying to lighten the sadness she saw in her friend's eyes, that she KNEW she was trying to hide. To her delight she saw a spark as Kai made a tired swipe at Mitsuko.
-What about school?-
"Professor made us go while Logan, Mr. McCoy, Storm, and himself repaired the damage to the institute. Oh, don't worry, you don't have much homework." Mitsuko winked and pointed to a small pile of books. Kai reached for one, but Touma stopped her.
"Need to rest." Kai rolled her eyes but smiled, a small twinkle in her eye.
-Charlene-
"Woke up, had to be drugged." Touma chuckled.
"Just like old times." Mitsuko frowned when she saw the sadness come upon her friend again.
"It wasn't your fault…"
-I know.- Kai nodded and tried to cheer up, and actually remain awake-but it all came rushing back on her and her eyes began to close.
"Rest, we'll we back." Touma smiled as Mitsuko gave her a hug, whilst Touma gave a kiss on her forehead. They left; turning off the light and Kai slowly blinked her eyes closed.
She didn't know why she met her. She just did. She met her in their secret place they had always gone to as kids. She looked up and stared at her, there were tears coming from her eyes as she sat in their tree house under the weeping willow. Her face wasn't contorted into anger anymore. Both of them embraced, just like old times and sat.
"You left me.." she said softly, so soft that if she hadn't had her special hearing abilities now, she would have never heard it.
"I was so scared. You were just gone. I thought you'd never come back." She buried her head in Kai's chest and slowly crawled into her older sister's lap.
"I didn't want to hurt you. I was so angry. Why One-san? Why did you leave me?"
-You were sick! You needed a family, you needed things I couldn't give you. I-
"So you left me with strangers?" Kai saw the hurt lined in her little sisters face and she just hugged her.
-It was the hardest thing I EVER had to do. You don't know how many sleepless nights I spent crying, wanting to hold you, wanting to watch you grow into the wonderful person before me now.-
"You used to sing to me before the accident. I miss that. I missed that even before you left."
-I can't sing now, I-
"Try? For me?" Kai blinked back tears and closed her eyes. She remembered how her voice used to sound. But it seemed far away now. So far away. She opened her eyes hearing a soft hum coming from Charlene. It was their song. Without even thinking, she began to hum along too, not even knowing if it even worked, but before either knew it, they were on the old swing hanging from the second highest branch on the right, overlooking the forest.
"I missed you… more than you know."
-I know.-
"I'm sorry…" Charlene buried her head into kai's shoulder again, crying as Kai gently patted her back, shushing her tears. She then forced up her chin.
"No more tears little sister. No more tears… please." Charlene nodded and gently laid her head to rest in Kai's lap, while Kai leaned over and rested her head on a pillow on the side.
Soon both were drifting back from the astrophysical plane to their own bodies where they would rest and awake in the morning.
It would be a new day.
Kai winced and moved her ears lower hearing noise. She disliked loud noises. She heard a slight laugh and removed one ear from the top of her head and twitched it around.
"Vake up sleepy head." Kai blinked open her eyes, wincing slightly at the piercing sun that threatened to temporarily obstruct her vision. She was met with the smiling blue face of Kurt who had two bowls of oatmeal in his hands. Kai blinked and looked over at Charlene who was grinning cheekily at her-what an attitude change. Then she looked at Kurt again. Only a slight singe to his fur, and e didn't seem to be bothered by it…
"I brought you breakfast." Kai winced and sat up, grabbing at her ribs and throat. Kurt shook a finger at her.
"Za Professor said to rest." Kai had to hold back a laugh when Charlene started to mimic him, and Kurt obviously knew she was doing it so he carefully took the bowl in his tail and set it on her lap. Kai did a double take, since when had Charlene gotten free? She blinked again and looked at Kurt.
"Za Professor came in earlier and zey had a nice long chat." Kurt grinned and held out the bowl.
-I don't eat breakfast.-
"Need you're strength one-san" Charlene grinned. Kai opened her mouth to retort but a spoonful of carefully aimed oatmeal flew straight into it.
"Oh dear.." Kai raised a brow skeptically before gently setting down the bowl of oatmeal on her lap.
-Thanks for breakfast?-
"No problem froline!"
BAMF!
Kai grinned at the shock written on Charlene's face and stuck a spoonful of oatmeal into her mouth, and seemed to say; 'happy?' Charlene just grinned and ate her own oatmeal.
"So…" Charlene said after both had finished breakfast.
"How bad did I hurt you?" Kai gave a glare.
-I was weakened in my own defense.-
"I know, how bad?"
-Not too bad. Might get to talk again because of you.-
"Why?"
-Because the injury is now rebroken, so now Touma can heal it.-
"Touma can heal? No way!"
-Yes way.-
"Mitsuko?"
-Water master-
"Sugoi! I wanna see!"
-Not until your better- Kai grabbed at her throat. She may not be talking, but it still hurt, that and her heat still hurt, and she was getting a little hot.
"Hmph.. you're no fun."
-You certainly had an attitude change-
"So have you, you're not so dang depressing." Kai sighed and leaned back.
-'m not gonna comment on that.-
"Dang it, you went back in the hole!" Charlene mock pouted and crossed her arms, wincing when she moved the wound on her back.
"If Touma can heal, why couldn't he heal me?!"
-He got tired.- Kai winced and reached up to rub her temples.
'I have SO got to move..' she thought with a frown, letting her ears raise up so she could hear better. She took in a sharp inhale of breath and slowly sat up, nearly crying as pain shot through her.
"What are you trying to do?" a sudden voice interrupted her chain of though. Both people in the room looked up to see a frowning Mitsuko, Touma not far behind. She blinked seeing Charlene up and about.
"Char-Char!" She squealed and ran over to hug Charlene while Touma gently pushed Kai back down on the bed. Suddenly Kai remembered something and she lifted an arm.
"Don't worry, no one saw." Touma smiled and gently stroked one of her ears between his fingertips.
-Up?-
"No."
-please?-
"Forget it." Kai frowned and Touma smiled.
"Got some of my powers back…" he smiled as his hands began to glow a soft green. He ran his hands over her ribs gently, closing his eyes so he could imagine the emerald robes threading their way around the broken appendages. He was flabbergasted to find that there was no dark energy to fight him.
He opened his eyes gasping slightly. Professor Xavier was behind him and Kai has long since given into a dreary sleep.
"Very good Touma. It takes longer to heal bones?" Touma nodded and wiped the sweat away from his forehead. He blinked.
"Where is Mitsuko and Charlene?"
"Mitsuko went to show Charlene to the room. Kai just fell asleep, so she told me Charlene could have the bed, she likes the window seat." Touma nodded and sighed, rubbing the back of his head.
"I fixed them, I'm not sure about her throat. I..I haven't healed anything that major before."
"That's perfectly understandable, Touma." Professor Xavier folded his hands and rested his chin on them.
"I have a proposition for you.." Touma looked back to him and signaled him to continue. Professor Xavier unfolded his hands and leaned foreword.
"I wonder… what do you think about using cerebro to magnify your abilities?" Professor Xavier leaned back to wait for an answer. Touma seemed to be in deep thought.
He looked up after a few minutes.
"I'll try."
"Good."
~*!*!~
Touma gulped nervously as he slid on the helmet that was attached to the super computer known as the Cerebro.
"Remember, just stay calm and concentrate." Jean smiled, putting a hand on his shoulder. She had Professor Xavier were present to monitor the system as they were the two more advanced users of the giant mainframe.
"Right." Touma sighed as he closed his eyes and dove into the Central Processing Unit known as Cerebro.
Immediately he awoke in his astral form. He was a sort of elf like creature. His skin was a light emerald and his eyes were a deep brown, while his ears had become pointed. He wore earthly shades and golden bracelets and jewelry hung off of him. He looked around at the mainframe surrounding him. Wires were on all sides and a giant screen was before him as well. A sweet voice suddenly filled the entire area.
"What is it that you wish?" the voice echoed and Touma winced, thinking 'so this is what it's like for Kai..'. He swore then and there he would never make annoying high-pitched sounds.
"Um.. can you take me to Kai?"
"Processing…..processing… Kai found." Kai came onto screen and Touma suddenly found himself being pushed by a friendly wire towards a podium.
It was as if Cerebro had spoken in his head and told him what to do. He slowly closed his eyes and touched the screen. Immediately information came up and surrounded him and he opened his eyes to be surrounded by all sorts of files.
"Injuries." A strong wind began to blow the files all around him. Suddenly, a large file came up and he dove inside to be surrounded by shelves upon shelves of smaller folder files.
"Um.. Recent" The shelves moved as if they were trains and a two new shelves appeared before him. He thought a moment. He needed it to narrow down!
"Physical injuries." The files disappeared this time and reappeared as a small box with at most, ten folders.
"Um.. Current ailments?" The box disappeared and a smaller box appeared in his hands. Touma sighed and sat down cross-legged and opened up a file that read 'Left Eye' he opened it and was met with a swirling matrix. Biting his lip he rested his hand atop it and slowly sent cords of emerald fire through it. Slowly he mended it, taking away the soreness with a soft touch and bringing down the swelling. When he opening his astral eyes the folder was hovering above him. It seemed to say 'thank you' before it was gone, having been filed to another section.
Touma sighed; relaxing his shoulders and took out another folder. This one held the file for her arm, where the stitches had been made. He opened this folder and found another swirling matrix. He gently rested his hand on top of it and closed his eyes, letting the cords of power dive inside. He gently pulled each stitch from its place and healed up the cut, leaving a slight scar. Satisfied with his work, he leaped out and let the folder disappear.
He took out the last folder, and the box disappeared. He opened the folder and was met by an even bigger and even deeper swirling matrix. Touma gulped and shakily rested his palm on it. He closed his eyes and dove inside, letting his cords of power run everywhere. He looked around while he was at it. The bone sin her voice box were all broken. He gently mended each piece back together, leaving no cracks, and making it as he had seen it. He chose to look back on his work before diving out. The folder stared at him for a minute longer than the others, and then disappeared. Touma sighed and got up.
"Back to Cerebro." He closed his eyes as a tingling sensation came ove him, and when he opened his eyes he was back in the astral form of Cerebro, surrounded by wires.
"It is time for me to go." The wires gently unwrapped themselves and Touma found himself fading out of the mechanism that is Cerebro.
TBC
A.N. There you go, big chappie! It probably sucks but…big chappie! Please read and review, arigato gozaimasu ^.~
P.S.! I will be using some Japanese; I'll have translations though! Ja!
Stuff I might have used already!
1.Hai---yes
2. Iye---no
3.Arigatou Gozaimasu---Thank you very much
