I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying
I approved of it.
--Mark Twain
Chrissy: Actually, I love that movie, and thank you. Everyone says I have a good imagination.
torque: The Hezibah thing is mentioned slightly in aforementioned chapters, a little article it is.
HoneyBug17:Juju rubs his head a lot. Must be why I can't get rid of him.
Radical-Seto: I hope you get over your writer's block, I want to read more of your stuff!
Rogue77: A mary-sue is the perfect female character, that everyone(in the cartoon) likes, with either an incredibly happy past or incredibly angsty one, That immediately shacks up with the most popular guy, beats an incredible evil, and still has everyone love her, etc. If you look up Aslyin, she has this fic called ordinary, and that might shed some light.
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Night grows near. My friends grow restless and Julian has begun to get worried by the tense air.
The Power flows through me now, the life force of it pulsing through my body. I cannot live without it, and it reacts through myself.
Most puzzling to me would be Julian, his transformation totally alien to the way the Power works. My only assumption is that the death of the two caused some sort of reaction with my own body, reacting with the Power that was used to bring him to life. But in any case, he'd be much easier to take care of now.
The animals of the forest had long since evacuated the woods, leaving nothing but a dead silence. It hung heavily in the air, deafening. They had obeyed my wishes and left my enemy to myself.
I still feel vestiges of a depression that gentle Danny had had. And I felt the undercurrent of a permanent rage deep in my chest.
I had things to do before they slipped away. Unspoken promises that had to be carried out before they rested forever.
It will be dealt with soon enough.
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They parked well away from the camp.
"Yew hear that?"
Arcane perked up listening. "I hear nothing."
"Exactly." Wolverine sniffed the air. "No wild animal within fifty miles."
"Danny."
"Yup. This has Doolittle written all over it. She's out there in the woods. Probably waitin' for nightfall."
"Should we go find her?"
"No. I don't think that would be a good idea. This place don't smell right."
"What do you mean?"
"It's like death is coming."
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The girls sat with Sam and Ray as their Mother and Father held conference with Ororo and Professor Xavier.
"Where's Chrissy?" One of them wondered. The others, including their two watchers, shrugged.
"Going through the throes of dramatic angst to my Uncle." Spike said as he walked in. He leaned easily against the wall. "She and Donnie specialize in that."
"Do they now?" Ray said sarcastically. He was less than impressed by those two.
"Spike, where'd Jared go?" One of the girls asked.
Spike returned coolly, "He want on a little trip with Wolverine."
"Oh."
"Hey, why don't you guys go to the rec room, I saw Rahne and Jubes in there, maybe they'll pull out a board game."
The girls jumped and skipped away down the hall, dragging Sam with them.
Ray looked at him. "You just lied right to their faces."
"So I did."
"Why?"
"They're too young to worry about this right now. It's better that they never know."
Ray didn't answer but left the room.
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I walked through the shadows.
Julian had long since abandoned to the trees, as I ordered him, but I sensed him behind me. He would follow until I got to the camp.
Brutus and Cassius moved through the woods like twin monsters, with heightened senses and monstrous strength. Doggy padded beside me, his body changed in much the same way, but his body leaner and his legs longer. Hezibah had put on a lot of muscle too.
And what of myself? No muscle had I gained, or strength. But I had gotten my mind back. The power in full rein.
Around the camp there was a fence. Barbed wire ringed the top. I ignored it and went straight for the gate.
"Who are you?" The guard leaped up. Judging by the way he moved, he wasn't quite awake. He leveled his gun at me.
"Me? You can call me…Dahk." I rallied the power into one fist and ran towards him. He saw the green glow in my hands and struggled to fire, but I got there before his finger did.
"GRAAGGH!" He fell to the ground twitching. I kicked the gate open.
"Spread out. Find me every place Jared might be. Bite people, rip their arms off, I don't care."
The canines did as I asked, loping of in all different directions. I moved straight ahead. There was a building there, with lights on. Some sort of bar.
Drunk people shouldn't play with guns.
I kicked open the door. People looked up from tables all around. I quick scan assured me that Jared wasn't there.
"She's a mutie!"
Guns were cocked, but I didn't let that frighten me. I crossed my hands and let the power align itself, and then let it burst out into a mist. Shots fired. One grazed my shoulder but nothing got close to stopping me. The mist slipped through the building, and screams starting erupting within the mist, for those unlucky enough to come in contact with it. Pain without death. Bu they would wish they had.
I allowed myself a smile.
They deserved what they were getting.
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The screams hit the air with the baying of what sounded like some very angry dogs.
"Three guesses, first two don't count!" Wolverine yelled as he sped towards the gate, with Arcane close behind.
The gate guard was on the ground, eyes wide open. Wolverine grabbed him.
"What's goin' on?"
"M-monster! She's a mutie monster!"
Wolverine threw him to the ground. "Let's go."
Arcane was already at the gate. "Sounds like she's ripping the place apart."
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This splinter of the FoH was probably sorry it ever met us. One side was full of giant dogs and a hyena, complete with teeth to seal the bargain and the other was myself, an angry mutie.
Hey tootse, we got what you lookin' for.
Lab to the right corner baby.
(Thanks.) I started off in that direction. Shots were fired at me. I glared in their direction and they stopped firing for a half second, to wonder. That was all they needed, because Hezibah and Doggy jumped them from behind.
I left Doggy and Hezibah to the task. I walked over to the building. Cassius and Brutus were waiting. I pushed open the door.
Jared was sitting on a table. He looked at me with wide eyes and suddenly brightened when he realized who I was.
"Danny!"
He held out his hands and I scooped him up, feeling an intense weight lift from my chest.
And an intense weight in my back.
The lead slug missed the vital organs by several inches and missed Jared by less.
I looked slowly around. There was a scientist sitting there with a gun. I watched him coldly, my eyes beginning to tint with green.
"Cassius. Brutus." My voice hissed quietly. They came up. I put Jared onto Cassius's back. Then I motioned them to leave. They did so.
"You."
He looked a little less than confident about the whole affair. Especially since I started to advance on him with my fist glowing.
"Forgive me!" He suddenly said. I stopped. He put the gun down and showed me that he was unarmed.
"They forced me to make the Poison Virus! I swear! I had no choice."
"You made it. You made it out of mutants." I said simply. " And they heard it. Mutant DNA that held little vestiges of personality of those it was made from. I heard voices. Many were sad. Others were scum. But it wasn't your fault."
"No." He said. "I was forced! What else would I have done to you had I not been forced?"
"Liar."
"N-no."
"Yes, you are. I know you are. They told me. And now, revenge for me and the ones you murdered to make your wonder drug shall have their revenge."
I grabbed him by the shirt and made him look me straight in the face.
"And now it is served."
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The scream erupted from the lab chilled all to the bone, except for four canines, whom moved with satisfaction to deal with the rest and to meet the two other mutants that had fought their way through the straggling guards.
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