Hey there, I just want to thank all of you people who reviewed on the first chapter of my fanfiction. It's a very good confidence booster. Okay then, on to chapter two!
The entire school was in an uproar. The yells and shouts of the students were more like verbal mud. Each word lost in the countless words of the rest of the group. Trash was being thrown at the small group of mutants in the center of the rioting crowd from out of the garbage can some of the jocks had brought with them. They had nowhere to hide and no way to get out of the circle. All of them were bunched together, back-to-back and hip-to-hip. The new mutants were grouped together on the other side of the circle. Their clothes were torn and stained from garbage.
Out of nowhere, some kid Amara knew from her history class rushed forward and punched Ray hard in stomach. He dropped to the ground and the other students soon followed, all of them hoping for a chance to beat the mutants. Kitty and Rogue were the first to start blocking kicks and punches. With a shout, another kid went flying over Sam's shoulder. Blocking just wasn't going to cut it. Even though it was good to get back at the people they once called peers for the endless abuse they had gotten last year, something moral still tugged at them. But that didn't stop them from fighting back.
Rogue started feeling shivers running up and down her spine while she was fighting. They weren't of fear though they felt…good. She had never felt anything like it before until that moment. The shivers of pleasure were addictive, like a drug. The adrenalin coursed through her body, and the high she was on began to cloud her thoughts. She wanted more.
There was a break in the fighting, and facing one of the jocks, she smugly grinned and he rushed at her. Just what she wanted. Slamming her knee into his stomach, she laughed as he sank to ground.
A buzzing sound came to her ears. Her heart was pounding. The buzzing became louder, like a low roar. Her mind was completely clouded and she fought blindly. The roaring became louder. Something within her began to stir. Sweat was pouring down her face. The chills became more frequent. Something new was pouring through her. Power. Beautiful, glorious power.
There were shouts and screams as she hurled some football player over her shoulder and completely over to the other side of the circle.
The roaring grew even louder and Rogue covered her ears and fell to her knees as she tried to make the sounds go away. The roaring became clear. Voices, so many voices were screaming inside her. Some of them were women's voices, while others belonged to men. It was unbearable! The high she was on began to fade and hair on the back of her neck began to bristle. The world around her was a swirling mass of sounds and colors. Faces, voices, she knew that kid right? And that girl that just rushed past, she had been on the soccer team right? Her mind was flooded with memories and images. Like some freakish carousel ride, gone crazy. Her eyes widened and darted this way and that.
Looking up, she gazed at some guy she had known from her art class and braced for a kick to the stomach.
An image of Colossus flashed to the front of her mind.
"Ah! What the hell –?" He shouted stepping back with a limp. "What are you?!"
Wordlessly, Rogue stood up. Or at least what they thought was Rogue. From the chin up, she looked cold and uncaring like usual. From the neck down, she was as cold as steel…literally. Green eyes stared out blankly at the group of people, almost like she were looking through them, as if they were made of glass. Her clothes had been torn around her neck, shoulders, elbows and knees and the armored skin shone through. With gasps and screams, the students split and stepped aside as Rogue stepped forward, the other following behind her.
"Go! Get out of here!" Shouted the head cheerleader. "We do need you muties in our school!"
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All right, sure the ocean was beautiful, but after looking at it for seemingly endless hours, seeing water was really getting annoying. Heck, even seeing some beach ball that had floated out to sea would be a nice change. All Lucas really wanted to see was some land. He never thought that he would be so happy to see where his father lived.
He began to wonder about the other members of the X-men. He knew that there had to be more then just Scott, Jean and Ororo. Oh well, it probably didn't matter much since he was planning to take down all of them.
"No! You can't do that!" David shouted from the back of his mind. Lucas cringed as he forced him back into the darkness. It was unbelievable! David had only just met Xavier, for not even five minutes, and already he was defending him. It was disgusting. After everything that man who dared to call himself his father did, David was defending him! He was going to take down the X-men and Xavier. Even if it was the last thing he ever did.
A smiled curled Lucas' lips as he strained his eyes. He could see a thin strip of land up ahead. It wouldn't be long now. He rose up higher into the air. If was going to be flying over the "city that never sleeps" he couldn't risk being seen now could he? Of course, it wasn't like anyone could really do anything about it if he was seen. A plane flew overhead with a roar as he ducked into a cloud. He had heard of road kill, but if he was hit by a plane, that would be absolutely ridiculous.
Authors note: Sorry my chapters have been so short.