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Ch12-Painful Rememberings

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"Who the hell are you....no you know what? No need to tell me, from what I've seen your just a pathetic little boy!"

"Ahhhh my pretty kitty, I do think it's time I tell you who I really am. Then maybe you will understand my idea of justice."

Shalimar started her struggle against her chains, wanting to hear what he had to say, but her pride wouldn't let her.

Her captor turned on his heels and marched over to her, backhanding her across her right cheek, leaving a large red mark in it's wake.

"You will listen to me!"

The golden tressed huntress spit out some blood on the cold hard ground below her, "Sounds like someone has some anger issues..."

The man chuckled a bit under his breath, "Defiant as always….but you, my dear kitty, you will listen…because I am not giving you a choice."

With the flick of his wrist he immobilized Shalimar, taking away her ability to move and speak, all she could do was sit and listen, no matter how much she didn't want to.

He let out a heavy sigh and began to pace, his feathers ruffling as he walked back and forth. He had to get every detail just right….he had to make her understand.

His faced screwed up in a knot as he dug in his memory, trying to remember everything just as it was. For that was the only way to make her truly understand.

He was walking the halls of the high school he had tried so hard to forget, but as he dug deeper into his memory, it all came alive again.

Reaching out with his mind he grasped Shalimar's conciseness and pulled her into the memory with him.

Looking to his left to see the beautiful feral standing beside him.

Shalimar swiveled her head around, confused with her surroundings. She could tell it was a school from the crowd of kids in the halls, but she didn't understand why her captor had brought her here…or how.

"Where are we? Why am I here?"

"Ahhhh my dear Shalimar just watch….I think you will recognize a few people." he said with a small grin plastered on his face.

Shalimar looked at him, confused more then ever, then she saw a boy, about 14, running towards her. Before she could move the boy ran into her.

Shalimar closed her eyes, expecting to hit the ground at any second, but she didn't…..when she opened her eyes and looked around, the kid was behind her. He had run right through her! She thought to herself.

"What the???" Shalimar just couldn't let go of her astonishment, either she was dead or none of this was real.

"That" her captor said as he pointed at the boy who had run through her, "would be me…..as you can see this memory was quite some time ago."

"Memory…?"

The man smiled a bit, "I was waiting for you to ask," He started to walk down the hallway, following his younger self, the way he did so, told Shalimar he was expecting her to follow him. And she obliged, wanting to hear more, hoping to get some answers.

"So I see we are in a memory…..but how did I get here and why am I here?"

"It's quite simple my pretty kitty, I have powers beyond your imagination," He sighed slightly, giving her a lopsided grin, "powers of the mind and body that are beyond your limited comprehension."

"Try me."

"As much as I wish to indulge you, it will have to wait. For now…just watch, every answer you seek will be explained with time."

Shalimar figured she could beat it out of him later, flashing a huge grin at the thought, for now she might as well get the answers that she had been demanding.

They followed his younger self into another crowded hallway, where kids had gathered around 2 guys. One had the other pressed up against a locker, and the other guy didn't seem to mind.

"If I ever see you so much as look at Ashley again, I'll kill you, you stupid son of a bitch." a blond haired guy in a football jacket barked at the other guy.

"So does that mean no looking? But touching is ok?" The dark haired guy said with more then a hint of playfulness. He wasn't afraid, he was actually enjoying this.

"Mulwray! Don't be a smart ass with me!"

Mulwray? Shalimar thought to herself then edged into to get a closer look at the 2 guys.

"Oh my gosh that's Brennan!"

Her captor nodded, "Just watch, there is a lot more you must see."

"Mulwray, I'm warning you! You stay away from her, she's mine!"

The jock let Brennan go and then turned on his heels to walk away.

Brennan stood up, and as in that Brennan attitude, brushed his coat off and went on walking past the jock.

He looked over his shoulder to the blond guy "Dustin, man, you should really work on that temper of yours, and oh yeah, I'll see what I can do for you about Ashley, but these eyes you know…just wander wherever they like. Mind of their own…what can ya do?"

Dustin's eyes lit up like matches, "Mulwray, you better watch your back."

"Why ever should I? It's not like you actually have the balls to do anything." Brennan chuckled and kept on walking.

Shalimar went to follow Brennan but her captor grabbed her arm and everything around them began to swirl.

The next time Shalimar opened her eyes they were standing in an alley way.

She clutched the sides of her head and looked to her left, sure enough there he was.

"Ugg, I feel like I'm gunna hurl."

"Sorry pretty kitty, I took your mind on quite a trip, it's only proper that your body…well you think your body feels the effects."

"Grand….and stop calling me that."

"Stop calling you what?"

"Your pretty kitty," She said with disgust "you've show that your partly intelligent and that you know my name…even though I still don't know yours."

"Devon Hellacaster"

"What?"

"That's my name…now you know."

"Oh." Shalimar looked down at her feet for a second then looked up at her surrounding.

"So why the hell are we in an alley."

"Just watch."

"I don't see what the heck there is to watch! The alley is empty."

"It won't be in a second."

Just as Shalimar was about to retort with a nasty comment she saw 2 guys come into the alleyway. Shalimar heart skipped a beat when she saw that one of the guys was Brennan, from what she could tell he was about 17 or 18, but he was an handsome as ever, and the mere site of him made her feel better. She didn't know the other guy, so she just figured it was a friend of Brennan's, he had to look and the attitude like Brennan did.

"Dude, you know your only chasing Ashley because it's pissing Dustin off." Brennan's friend said, giving Brennan a nudge with his elbow.

"Dude! Vince, that is horrible." Brennan said behind a boyish grin that made Shalimar feel like she was melting.

She wanted him to hold her so much, she couldn't take it, he was so close, but then she thought, "is he really real?"

Her captor turned to her, "No he's merely a memory of mine."

"Wait..what?..how did you?"

All he did was tap his forehead, "Your in my head remember? And In case you were wondering….no, he can't see us."

Shalimar felt a huge wave of disappointment wash over her, "Oh."

"Now, just watch….I know my younger self is."

Shalimar couldn't even begin to think about what that last comment had meant, her thoughts were focused solely on Brennan and the group of guys coming up from behind him.

"Brennan watch out!" She screamed, forgetting that it wouldn't help, he couldn't hear her warnings and soon he was on the ground, bleeding from the side of his head.

Behind him was Dustan with a metal bat in his hand and a group of jocks standing around him laughing.

"I told you to watch your back Mulwray!"

"Brennan!" Vince made a move to try and get to his fallen friend, and in turn received a bat in the ribs that threw him to the ground in pain, from there he was pinned by 2 large jocks.

All Shalimar and Vince could do was sit there and watch blow after blow, and when Shalimar looked to Devon she saw a look on his face, one that disturbed her beyond words. He seemed to be getting a sick pleasure out of Brennan's beating.

Dustin stopped his barrage of hits for a second to lean over and whisper something into the ear of another jock. The jock turned and left and came back with a huge fire hose.

"Time to clean up Mulwray, you look a little dirty."

The other jocks hauled Brennan to his feet and pinned him against the brick wall, blood pouring out of him like he was a fountain, he never had a chance to defend himself as the hose was turned on full power, hitting him square in the chest, throwing him onto his back.

Shalimar watched horrified as Brennan began to form a ball of electricity in his hands. It was obvious that he didn't know what would happen, or he didn't think about it because he was in so much pain. Brennan started to convulse on the floor and stray electricity was flying everywhere.

Vince staggered to his feet and made his way over to his friend, "Brennan! What the hell is…"

Before he could finish his sentence Vince was hit with a lightening bolt that threw him into the wall across the alley. He body landed limply on the ground with a smoking hole burned into his chest, his eyes open, but morbidly empty.

Shalimar saw that Brennan was unconscious then she saw Devon's younger self run over to Vince, checking his pulse, then collapsing beside him as his body was racked with heavy sobs.

When the younger Devon looked up his eyes were glowing feral red, staring in the direction of Brennan.

Then everything began to spin again and when Shalimar opened her eyes she saw she was back in her body, which was still chained to a chair in her cell she felt a small tear drop roll off her cheek and splash on the concrete.

Devon opened his eyes and took a deep breath, "That was the first time my powers manifested…..the day my brother died at the hands of that son of a bitch Brennan Mulwray!"

Shalimar finally understood why she was here, and why Devon was so hell bent on turning her against Brennan.

"It was an accident." She said with all the empathy she could muster.

"That bastard killed my brother, there was no accident, he took the one thing I loved most in this world. Since that day I have thought of so many ways to take revenge on him. Going from laboratory to laboratory, improving and adding to my powers. Then I realized that being invincible when I finally confronted him wouldn't be nearly as much fun as turning the woman he loves the most against him….and then you came along…granted your twining incident wasn't expected but I have one of you none the less. Your counterpart will only add to my plans….. FINALLY! Justice will be served!"

"Ya well consider this plan scrapped, because I will never hurt him…never." She said coolly as she slouched in her chair as much as her shackles would allow.

"Ahhhh my pretty kitty you see, that is where you are wrong. My little mind controlling agent will do the trick, and you will kill off EVERY one of your precious Mutant X friends, as he watches, then for the grand finale! HE will die, just as my brother did so many years ago. With a smoking hole in his chest! Eyes staring blankly up at nothing!"

Shalimar began to struggle again as he came at her with another shot of mind control potion, but the struggle was futile, and soon she was under his command again.

"Now…take me to Sanctuary…take me to him!"

A few hours later they were on the door step of Sanctuary, "It's time for you to go home Shalimar, and boy is it gunna be one hell of a welcome home party!"

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WOW that took me a while, but I hope you liked it b/c I loved writing the fight scene. And you known what? Why don't you go tell me how much you loved it…a little encouragement for me to write the next chapter faster!